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From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] powerpc: fadamp: simplify fadump_reserve_crash_area()
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 16:23:15 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb86fb93-4d52-6b58-0914-eab45b74c028@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200801101854.GD534153@kernel.org>



On 01/08/20 3:48 pm, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:15:13PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> writes:
>>> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
>>>
>>> fadump_reserve_crash_area() reserves memory from a specified base address
>>> till the end of the RAM.
>>>
>>> Replace iteration through the memblock.memory with a single call to
>>> memblock_reserve() with appropriate  that will take care of proper memory
>>                                       ^
>>                                       parameters?
>>> reservation.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 20 +-------------------
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>
>> I think this looks OK to me, but I don't have a setup to test it easily.
>> I've added Hari to Cc who might be able to.
>>
>> But I'll give you an ack in the hope that it works :)
> 
> Actually, I did some digging in the git log and the traversal was added
> there on purpose by the commit b71a693d3db3 ("powerpc/fadump: exclude
> memory holes while reserving memory in second kernel")

I was about to comment on the same :)
memblock_reserve() was being used until we ran into the issue talked 
about in the above commit...

> Presuming this is still reqruired I'm going to drop this patch and will

Yeah, it is still required..

> simply replace for_each_memblock() with for_each_mem_range() in v2.

Sounds right.

>   
>> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
>>
>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
>>> index 78ab9a6ee6ac..2446a61e3c25 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
>>> @@ -1658,25 +1658,7 @@ int __init fadump_reserve_mem(void)
>>>   /* Preserve everything above the base address */
>>>   static void __init fadump_reserve_crash_area(u64 base)
>>>   {
>>> -	struct memblock_region *reg;
>>> -	u64 mstart, msize;
>>> -
>>> -	for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
>>> -		mstart = reg->base;
>>> -		msize  = reg->size;
>>> -
>>> -		if ((mstart + msize) < base)
>>> -			continue;
>>> -
>>> -		if (mstart < base) {
>>> -			msize -= (base - mstart);
>>> -			mstart = base;
>>> -		}
>>> -
>>> -		pr_info("Reserving %lluMB of memory at %#016llx for preserving crash data",
>>> -			(msize >> 20), mstart);
>>> -		memblock_reserve(mstart, msize);
>>> -	}
>>> +	memblock_reserve(base, memblock_end_of_DRAM() - base);
>>>   }
>>>   
>>>   unsigned long __init arch_reserved_kernel_pages(void)
>>> -- 
>>> 2.26.2
> 

Thanks
Hari


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-01 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-28  5:11 [PATCH 00/15] memblock: seasonal cleaning^w cleanup Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 01/15] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: simplify kvm_cma_reserve() Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 02/15] dma-contiguous: simplify cma_early_percent_memory() Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28  6:37   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 03/15] arm, xtensa: simplify initialization of high memory pages Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28  8:09   ` Max Filippov
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 04/15] arm64: numa: simplify dummy_numa_init() Mike Rapoport
2020-07-29  8:30   ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-07-30 12:03   ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 05/15] h8300, nds32, openrisc: simplify detection of memory extents Mike Rapoport
2020-07-29 11:41   ` Stafford Horne
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 06/15] powerpc: fadamp: simplify fadump_reserve_crash_area() Mike Rapoport
2020-07-30 12:15   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-08-01 10:18     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-08-01 10:53       ` Hari Bathini [this message]
2020-08-02 13:14       ` Michael Ellerman
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 07/15] riscv: drop unneeded node initialization Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 08/15] mircoblaze: drop unneeded NUMA and sparsemem initializations Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 09/15] memblock: make for_each_memblock_type() iterator private Mike Rapoport
2020-07-30  1:52   ` Baoquan He
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 10/15] memblock: make memblock_debug and related functionality private Mike Rapoport
2020-07-30  1:54   ` Baoquan He
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 11/15] memblock: reduce number of parameters in for_each_mem_range() Mike Rapoport
2020-07-30  2:22   ` Baoquan He
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 12/15] arch, mm: replace for_each_memblock() with for_each_mem_pfn_range() Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 13/15] arch, drivers: replace for_each_membock() with for_each_mem_range() Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28 15:02   ` Emil Renner Berthing
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 14/15] x86/numa: remove redundant iteration over memblock.reserved Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28 10:44   ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-28 10:56     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28 11:31       ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-28 11:02   ` Baoquan He
2020-07-28 14:15     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-07-28 14:23       ` Baoquan He
2020-07-28  5:11 ` [PATCH 15/15] memblock: remove 'type' parameter from for_each_memblock() Mike Rapoport

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