From: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
To: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>,
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] persistent_ram: Make it possible to use memory outside of bootmem
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:10:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMbhsRTi2Gkk+CgRdcuQRU6f3SO51bqPt8o_+JDpTuXjkDf64Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120512001754.GF14782@lizard>
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Anton Vorontsov
<anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> wrote:
> This includes devices' memory (e.g. framebuffers or memory mapped
> EEPROMs on a local bus), as well as the normal RAM that we don't use
> for the main memory.
>
> For the normal (but unused) ram we could use kmaps, but this assumes
> highmem support, so we don't bother and just use the memory via
> ioremap.
>
> As a side effect, the following hack is possible: when used together
> with pstore_ram (new ramoops) module, we can limit the normal RAM region
> with mem= and then point ramoops to use the rest of the memory, e.g.
>
> mem=128M ramoops.mem_address=0x8000000
>
> Sure, we could just reserve the region with memblock_reserve() early in
> the arch/ code, and then register a pstore_ram platform device pointing
> to the reserved region. It's still a viable option if platform wants
> to do so.
>
> Also, we might want to use IO accessors in case of a real device,
> but for now we don't bother (the old ramoops wasn't using it either, so
> at least we don't make things worse).
This is long merged, but I remembered why I moved away from using
ioremap. The current code uses atomics to track the ringbuffer
positions, which results in ldrex and strex instructions on ARM.
ldrex and strex on memory that is mapped as Device memory (which is
what ioremap maps as) is implementation defined, and is unpredictable
at the architecture level.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-06 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-12 0:15 [PATCH 0/11] Merge ramoops and persistent_ram, generic pstore RAM backend Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-12 0:17 ` [PATCH 01/11] persistent_ram: Remove prz->node Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-12 0:17 ` [PATCH 02/11] persistent_ram: Fix buffer size clamping during writes Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-13 16:56 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-05-13 20:38 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-14 3:23 ` Colin Cross
2012-05-14 4:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-05-12 0:17 ` [PATCH 03/11] persistent_ram: Introduce persistent_ram_post_init() Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-12 0:17 ` [PATCH 04/11] persistent_ram: Introduce persistent_ram_new() Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-15 0:37 ` Colin Cross
2012-05-16 0:22 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-12 0:17 ` [PATCH 05/11] persistent_ram: Introduce persistent_ram_vmap() Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-12 0:17 ` [PATCH 06/11] persistent_ram: Make it possible to use memory outside of bootmem Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-06 21:10 ` Colin Cross [this message]
2012-06-06 22:11 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-12 0:18 ` [PATCH 07/11] persistent_ram: Introduce persistent_ram_free() Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-12 0:18 ` [PATCH 08/11] ramoops: Move to fs/pstore/ram.c Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-14 21:34 ` Kees Cook
2012-05-16 0:19 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-15 15:12 ` Shuah Khan
2012-05-16 7:30 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 15:17 ` Shuah Khan
2012-05-12 0:18 ` [PATCH 09/11] persistent_ram: Move to fs/pstore/ram_core.c Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-14 21:43 ` Kees Cook
2012-05-12 0:18 ` [PATCH 10/11] pstore/ram: Switch to persistent_ram routines Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-14 22:21 ` Kees Cook
2012-05-16 6:14 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-16 12:44 ` Kees Cook
2012-05-12 0:18 ` [PATCH 11/11] pstore/ram: Add ECC support Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-14 22:22 ` Kees Cook
2012-05-14 15:58 ` [PATCH 0/11] Merge ramoops and persistent_ram, generic pstore RAM backend Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-05-14 16:30 ` Shuah Khan
2012-05-14 20:45 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-14 20:55 ` Shuah Khan
2012-05-15 15:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-05-15 6:07 ` Marco Stornelli
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