From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt on
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:43 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> + /* Take out region array itself at first*/
> + if (memblock.reserved.regions != memblock_reserved_init_regions)
> + memblock_free(__pa(memblock.reserved.regions), sizeof(struct memblock_region) * memblock.reserved.max);
> +

More of that horror. Don't.

Another option from what i proposed earlier is to actually have a function
inside mm/memblock to free it (memblock_free_arrays()) that does nothing
if memblock is to survive init.

I hate exporting variables or data structures like that. Functions are
semantically a lot cleaner.

Ben.


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From: Yinghai Lu on
On 07/27/2010 10:02 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:43 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> + /* Take out region array itself at first*/
>> + if (memblock.reserved.regions != memblock_reserved_init_regions)
>> + memblock_free(__pa(memblock.reserved.regions), sizeof(struct memblock_region) * memblock.reserved.max);
>> +
>
> More of that horror. Don't.
>
> Another option from what i proposed earlier is to actually have a function
> inside mm/memblock to free it (memblock_free_arrays()) that does nothing
> if memblock is to survive init.
>
> I hate exporting variables or data structures like that. Functions are
> semantically a lot cleaner.

ok, will check if can change that to function instead.
but it will be with add-on patch.

Thanks

Yinghai
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From: Yinghai Lu on
On 07/27/2010 10:02 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:43 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> + /* Take out region array itself at first*/
>> + if (memblock.reserved.regions != memblock_reserved_init_regions)
>> + memblock_free(__pa(memblock.reserved.regions), sizeof(struct memblock_region) * memblock.reserved.max);
>> +
>
> More of that horror. Don't.
>
> Another option from what i proposed earlier is to actually have a function
> inside mm/memblock to free it (memblock_free_arrays()) that does nothing
> if memblock is to survive init.
>
> I hate exporting variables or data structures like that. Functions are
> semantically a lot cleaner.


Please check if you are ok with this one. if so please put it in your branch.
then I could rebase the second half patchset and ask hpa to put all in tip.

Thanks

Yinghai

[PATCH] memblock: Add memblock_free/reserve_reserved_resgions()

So we can avoid export memblock_reserved_init_regions()
Suggested by Ben.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org>

---
include/linux/memblock.h | 2 ++
mm/memblock.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/memblock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/memblock.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/memblock.h
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ extern int memblock_can_resize;
if (memblock_debug) printk(KERN_INFO pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)

u64 memblock_find_in_range(u64 start, u64 end, u64 size, u64 align);
+int memblock_free_reserved_regions(void);
+int memblock_reserve_reserved_regions(void);

extern void __init memblock_init(void);
extern void __init memblock_analyze(void);
Index: linux-2.6/mm/memblock.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memblock.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/memblock.c
@@ -170,6 +170,30 @@ u64 __init_memblock memblock_find_in_ran
return memblock_find_base(size, align, start, end);
}

+/*
+ * Free memblock.reserved.regions
+ */
+int memblock_free_reserved_regions(void)
+{
+ if (memblock.reserved.regions == memblock_reserved_init_regions)
+ return 0;
+
+ return memblock_free(__pa(memblock.reserved.regions),
+ sizeof(struct memblock_region) * memblock.reserved.max);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Reserve memblock.reserved.regions
+ */
+int memblock_reserve_reserved_regions(void)
+{
+ if (memblock.reserved.regions == memblock_reserved_init_regions)
+ return 0;
+
+ return memblock_reserve(__pa(memblock.reserved.regions),
+ sizeof(struct memblock_region) * memblock.reserved.max);
+}
+
static void __init_memblock memblock_remove_region(struct memblock_type *type, unsigned long r)
{
unsigned long i;
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