[RFC] memmap: introduce cmdline parameter "memmap=nn[KMG]$" without start addr

[lizhe . 67]

From: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In current kernel we can use memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] to reserve an
area of memory for another use from kernel. We have to determine
it's start addr and length. In our scenario, we need reserve or
alloc large continous memory like 256M in machine which have
different memory specification at just boot phase for a user land
process. And these memorys will not be freed to system before
system reboot. It is a hard work for us to reserve memory with
same length from machine with different memory specification,
because we have to determine the start addr of the reserved memory
for each type of machine.

This patch introduce a cmdline parameter "memmap=nn[KMG]$" to make
this work easy. It is an extension of "memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]". We
don't need to input the start addr. Kernel will reserve a suitable
area of memory and we can get the area from /proc/iomem with the
key word "Memmap Alloc". Notice that we need "$" in our cmdline
parameter or it will be confused with memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG].

Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |  7 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c                        | 64 ++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 2522b11e593f..b88df1e61d48 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3022,6 +3022,13 @@
 			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
 			         or
 			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
+			[KNL, X86] If @ss[KMG] is omitted, kernel will reserve a
+			suitable area of memory for us. We can find the area from
+			/proc/iomem with key word "Memmap Alloc".
+			Example: Exclude memory with size 0x10000
+					 memmap=64K$
+					 or
+					 memmap=0x10000$
 			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
 			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
 			will be eaten.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index f267205f2d5a..241d41ec870f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -942,8 +942,18 @@ static int __init parse_memmap_one(char *p)
 		start_at = memparse(p+1, &p);
 		e820__range_add(start_at, mem_size, E820_TYPE_ACPI);
 	} else if (*p == '$') {
-		start_at = memparse(p+1, &p);
-		e820__range_add(start_at, mem_size, E820_TYPE_RESERVED);
+		if (*(p+1) == '\0') {
+			/*
+			 * In the case we just want to reserve memory with size
+			 * 'mem_size' and don't care where it start, we get '\0'
+			 * here.
+			 */
+			p++;
+		} else {
+			/* We determine the start and size of the reserved memory */
+			start_at = memparse(p+1, &p);
+			e820__range_add(start_at, mem_size, E820_TYPE_RESERVED);
+		}
 	} else if (*p == '!') {
 		start_at = memparse(p+1, &p);
 		e820__range_add(start_at, mem_size, E820_TYPE_PRAM);
@@ -972,6 +982,40 @@ static int __init parse_memmap_one(char *p)
 	return *p == '\0' ? 0 : -EINVAL;
 }
 
+static int __init setup_memmap_random(char *p)
+{
+	char *oldp;
+	struct resource *res;
+	u64 start_at, mem_size;
+
+	if (!p)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	oldp = p;
+	mem_size = memparse(p, &p);
+	if (p == oldp)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (*p == '$') {
+		if (*(p+1) != '\0')
+			return 0; /* no need to deal with */
+		start_at = memblock_phys_alloc(mem_size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
+		if (start_at == 0)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		res = memblock_alloc(sizeof(struct resource), SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
+		if (res == NULL) {
+			memblock_phys_free(start_at, mem_size);
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
+		res->start = start_at;
+		res->end = start_at + mem_size - 1;
+		res->name = "Memmap Alloc";
+		res->flags = IORESOURCE_BUSY | IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM,
+		res->desc = IORES_DESC_RESERVED;
+		insert_resource(&iomem_resource, res);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int __init parse_memmap_opt(char *str)
 {
 	while (str) {
@@ -988,6 +1032,22 @@ static int __init parse_memmap_opt(char *str)
 }
 early_param("memmap", parse_memmap_opt);
 
+static int __init setup_memmap_opt(char *str)
+{
+	while (str) {
+		char *k = strchr(str, ',');
+
+		if (k)
+			*k++ = 0;
+
+		setup_memmap_random(str);
+		str = k;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+__setup("memmap=", setup_memmap_opt);
+
 /*
  * Reserve all entries from the bootloader's extensible data nodes list,
  * because if present we are going to use it later on to fetch e820
-- 
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