Re: [Patch v2 1/3] take the segment adding out of locate_mem_hole functions

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Wed Sep 10 2014 - 11:20:49 EST


On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 07:36:18PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> In locate_mem_hole functions, a memory hole is located and added as
> kexec_segment. But from the name of locate_mem_hole, it should only
> take responsibility of searching a available memory hole to contain
> data of a specified size.
>
> So in this patch add a new field 'mem' into kexec_buf, then take that
> kexec segment adding code out of locate_mem_hole_top_down and
> locate_mem_hole_bottom_up. This make clear of the functionality of
> locate_mem_hole just like it declars to do. And by this
> locate_mem_hole_callback chould be used later if anyone want to locate
> a memory hole for other use.
>
> Meanwhile Vivek suggested opening code function __kexec_add_segment(),
> that way we have to retreive ksegment pointer once and it is easy to
> read. So just do it in this patch and remove __kexec_add_segment()
> since no one use it anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Bao,

These 3 patches look good to me. I am assuming you have tested these
to make sure nothing is broken.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Vivek

> ---
> include/linux/kexec.h | 1 +
> kernel/kexec.c | 29 ++++++++---------------------
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
> index 4b2a0e1..9d957b7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kexec.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
> @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ struct kexec_buf {
> struct kimage *image;
> char *buffer;
> unsigned long bufsz;
> + unsigned long mem;
> unsigned long memsz;
> unsigned long buf_align;
> unsigned long buf_min;
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
> index 2bee072..63bc3cd 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -2016,22 +2016,6 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
> subsys_initcall(crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
> -static int __kexec_add_segment(struct kimage *image, char *buf,
> - unsigned long bufsz, unsigned long mem,
> - unsigned long memsz)
> -{
> - struct kexec_segment *ksegment;
> -
> - ksegment = &image->segment[image->nr_segments];
> - ksegment->kbuf = buf;
> - ksegment->bufsz = bufsz;
> - ksegment->mem = mem;
> - ksegment->memsz = memsz;
> - image->nr_segments++;
> -
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> static int locate_mem_hole_top_down(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
> {
> @@ -2064,8 +2048,7 @@ static int locate_mem_hole_top_down(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> } while (1);
>
> /* If we are here, we found a suitable memory range */
> - __kexec_add_segment(image, kbuf->buffer, kbuf->bufsz, temp_start,
> - kbuf->memsz);
> + kbuf->mem = temp_start;
>
> /* Success, stop navigating through remaining System RAM ranges */
> return 1;
> @@ -2099,8 +2082,7 @@ static int locate_mem_hole_bottom_up(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> } while (1);
>
> /* If we are here, we found a suitable memory range */
> - __kexec_add_segment(image, kbuf->buffer, kbuf->bufsz, temp_start,
> - kbuf->memsz);
> + kbuf->mem = temp_start;
>
> /* Success, stop navigating through remaining System RAM ranges */
> return 1;
> @@ -2187,7 +2169,12 @@ int kexec_add_buffer(struct kimage *image, char *buffer, unsigned long bufsz,
> }
>
> /* Found a suitable memory range */
> - ksegment = &image->segment[image->nr_segments - 1];
> + ksegment = &image->segment[image->nr_segments];
> + ksegment->kbuf = kbuf->buffer;
> + ksegment->bufsz = kbuf->bufsz;
> + ksegment->mem = kbuf->mem;
> + ksegment->memsz = kbuf->memsz;
> + image->nr_segments++;
> *load_addr = ksegment->mem;
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 1.8.5.3
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