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* [PATCH 0/4] resources: Add lookup_resource()
@ 2011-05-21 19:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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From: Geert Uytterhoeven @ 2011-05-21 19:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, sparclinux, linux-m68k

The resource system is a nice existing subsystem to implement simple allocators
on top of.
Unfortunately, there's no official method to find an existing resource by a
resource start address, which is needed for a freeing function that just takes
the start address of the region to free.
        
Currently there are 3 users of the resource subsystem that implement this by
traversing the resource tree theirselves:
  - The Amiga Chip RAM allocator on m68k,
  - iomap()/iounmap() on sparc,
  - DMA allocation API on sparc.
They all lack locking of the resource tree, as resource_lock is static in
kernel/resource.c.

Hence this patchset adds lookup_resource() and converts the above users to it.

  [1/4] sparc: _sparc_find_resource() should check for exact matches
  [2/4] resources: Add lookup_resource()
  [3/4] m68k/amiga: Chip RAM - Use lookup_resource()
  [4/4] sparc: iounmap() and *_free_coherent() - Use lookup_resource()

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

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2011-05-21 19:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] sparc: _sparc_find_resource() should check for exact matches Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-23  6:45   ` David Miller
2011-05-23  6:45     ` [PATCH 1/4] sparc: _sparc_find_resource() should check for David Miller
2011-05-21 19:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] sparc: _sparc_find_resource() should check for exact matches Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] resources: Add lookup_resource() Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] m68k/amiga: Chip RAM - Use lookup_resource() Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] sparc: iounmap() and *_free_coherent() " Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-21 19:39   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-23  6:46   ` David Miller
2011-05-23  6:46     ` [PATCH 4/4] sparc: iounmap() and *_free_coherent() - Use David Miller
2011-05-31  7:47 ` [PATCH 0/4] resources: Add lookup_resource() Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-31  7:47   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-31  7:47   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-31  7:51   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-31  7:51     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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