Re: [tip:x86/pmem] x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type

[Yinghai Lu]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:31 AM, tip-bot for Christoph Hellwig
<tipbot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit-ID:  ec776ef6bbe1734c29cd6bd05219cd93b2731bd4
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ec776ef6bbe1734c29cd6bd05219cd93b2731bd4
> Author:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 09:12:18 +0200
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 17:02:43 +0200
>
> x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type
..
> @@ -688,6 +691,7 @@ void __init e820_mark_nosave_regions(unsigned long limit_pfn)
>                         register_nosave_region(pfn, PFN_UP(ei->addr));
>
>                 pfn = PFN_DOWN(ei->addr + ei->size);
> +
>                 if (ei->type != E820_RAM && ei->type != E820_RESERVED_KERN)
>                         register_nosave_region(PFN_UP(ei->addr), pfn);
>

related?

> @@ -748,7 +752,7 @@ u64 __init early_reserve_e820(u64 size, u64 align)
>  /*
>   * Find the highest page frame number we have available
>   */
> -static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn, unsigned type)
> +static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn)
>  {
>         int i;
>         unsigned long last_pfn = 0;
> @@ -759,7 +763,11 @@ static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn, unsigned type)
>                 unsigned long start_pfn;
>                 unsigned long end_pfn;
>
> -               if (ei->type != type)
> +               /*
> +                * Persistent memory is accounted as ram for purposes of
> +                * establishing max_pfn and mem_map.
> +                */
> +               if (ei->type != E820_RAM && ei->type != E820_PRAM)
>                         continue;
>
>                 start_pfn = ei->addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> @@ -784,12 +792,12 @@ static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn, unsigned type)
>  }
>  unsigned long __init e820_end_of_ram_pfn(void)
>  {
> -       return e820_end_pfn(MAX_ARCH_PFN, E820_RAM);
> +       return e820_end_pfn(MAX_ARCH_PFN);
>  }
>
>  unsigned long __init e820_end_of_low_ram_pfn(void)
>  {
> -       return e820_end_pfn(1UL<<(32 - PAGE_SHIFT), E820_RAM);
> +       return e820_end_pfn(1UL << (32-PAGE_SHIFT));
>  }
>
>  static void early_panic(char *msg)
>

those eno_of_ram changes are not needed, as it will not used for
kernel mapping setup.

Thanks

Yinghai
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