Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86: Only direct map addresses that are marked as E820_RAM

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

This week is Kernel Summit & Plumbers... people are kind of distracted.

Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 02:17:51PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> > +struct range pfn_mapped[E820_X_MAX];
>> > +int nr_pfn_mapped;
>> 
>> change to static?
>> 
>> > +
>> > +void add_pfn_range_mapped(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long
>end_pfn)
>> > +{
>> > +       nr_pfn_mapped = add_range_with_merge(pfn_mapped,
>E820_X_MAX,
>> > +                                            nr_pfn_mapped,
>start_pfn, end_pfn);
>> > +       nr_pfn_mapped = clean_sort_range(pfn_mapped, E820_X_MAX);
>> > +
>> > +       max_pfn_mapped = max(max_pfn_mapped, end_pfn);
>> > +
>> > +       if (end_pfn <= (1UL << (32 - PAGE_SHIFT)))
>> > +               max_low_pfn_mapped = max(max_low_pfn_mapped,
>end_pfn);
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +bool pfn_range_is_mapped(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long
>end_pfn)
>> > +{
>> > +       int i;
>> > +
>> > +       for (i = 0; i < nr_pfn_mapped; i++)
>> > +               if ((start_pfn >= pfn_mapped[i].start) &&
>> > +                   (end_pfn <= pfn_mapped[i].end))
>> > +                       return true;
>> > +
>> > +       return false;
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +bool pfn_is_mapped(unsigned long pfn)
>> > +{
>> > +       return pfn_range_is_mapped(pfn, pfn + 1);
>> > +}
>> 
>> wonder if those functions have to be in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c.
>> 
>> also do we need to update the tracking array when we have do memory
>hot-remove?
>
>Would you please make sure you've reviewed this whole patchset
>thoroughly so that Jacob can do all changes at once and not keep
>resending them twice a week.
>
>Thanks a lot!
>
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