[PATCH 4/8] make careful_allocation() return vaddrs

Dave Hansen dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Dec 10 05:21:35 EST 2008


Since we memset() the result in both of the uses here,
just make careful_alloc() return a virtual address.
Also, add a separate variable to store the physial
address that comes back from the lmb_alloc() functions.
This makes it less likely that someone will screw it up
forgetting to convert before returning since the vaddr
is always in a void* and the paddr is always in an
unsigned long.

I admit this is arbitrary since one of its users needs
a paddr and one a vaddr, but it does remove a good
number of casts.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c |   37 ++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c~cleanup-careful_allocation1 arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
--- linux-2.6.git/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c~cleanup-careful_allocation1	2008-12-09 10:16:06.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c	2008-12-09 10:16:06.000000000 -0800
@@ -822,23 +822,28 @@ static void __init dump_numa_memory_topo
  * required. nid is the preferred node and end is the physical address of
  * the highest address in the node.
  *
- * Returns the physical address of the memory.
+ * Returns the virtual address of the memory.
  */
 static void __init *careful_allocation(int nid, unsigned long size,
 				       unsigned long align,
 				       unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
+	void *ret;
 	int new_nid;
-	unsigned long ret = __lmb_alloc_base(size, align, end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
+	unsigned long ret_paddr;
+
+	ret_paddr = __lmb_alloc_base(size, align, end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
 
 	/* retry over all memory */
-	if (!ret)
-		ret = __lmb_alloc_base(size, align, lmb_end_of_DRAM());
+	if (!ret_paddr)
+		ret_paddr = __lmb_alloc_base(size, align, lmb_end_of_DRAM());
 
-	if (!ret)
+	if (!ret_paddr)
 		panic("numa.c: cannot allocate %lu bytes for node %d",
 		      size, nid);
 
+	ret = __va(ret_paddr);
+
 	/*
 	 * We initialize the nodes in numeric order: 0, 1, 2...
 	 * and hand over control from the LMB allocator to the
@@ -851,17 +856,15 @@ static void __init *careful_allocation(i
 	 * instead of the LMB.  We don't free the LMB memory
 	 * since it would be useless.
 	 */
-	new_nid = early_pfn_to_nid(ret >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	new_nid = early_pfn_to_nid(ret_paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	if (new_nid < nid) {
-		ret = (unsigned long)__alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(new_nid),
+		ret = __alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(new_nid),
 				size, align, 0);
 
-		ret = __pa(ret);
-
-		dbg("alloc_bootmem %lx %lx\n", ret, size);
+		dbg("alloc_bootmem %p %lx\n", ret, size);
 	}
 
-	return (void *)ret;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata ppc64_numa_nb = {
@@ -955,7 +958,7 @@ void __init do_init_bootmem(void)
 
 	for_each_online_node(nid) {
 		unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
-		unsigned long bootmem_paddr;
+		void *bootmem_vaddr;
 		unsigned long bootmap_pages;
 
 		get_pfn_range_for_nid(nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn);
@@ -970,7 +973,6 @@ void __init do_init_bootmem(void)
 		NODE_DATA(nid) = careful_allocation(nid,
 					sizeof(struct pglist_data),
 					SMP_CACHE_BYTES, end_pfn);
-		NODE_DATA(nid) = __va(NODE_DATA(nid));
 		memset(NODE_DATA(nid), 0, sizeof(struct pglist_data));
 
   		dbg("node %d\n", nid);
@@ -987,14 +989,15 @@ void __init do_init_bootmem(void)
   		dbg("end_paddr = %lx\n", end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
 
 		bootmap_pages = bootmem_bootmap_pages(end_pfn - start_pfn);
-		bootmem_paddr = (unsigned long)careful_allocation(nid,
+		bootmem_vaddr = careful_allocation(nid,
 					bootmap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT,
 					PAGE_SIZE, end_pfn);
-		memset(__va(bootmem_paddr), 0, bootmap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
+		memset(bootmem_vaddr, 0, bootmap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
 
-		dbg("bootmap_paddr = %lx\n", bootmem_paddr);
+		dbg("bootmap_vaddr = %p\n", bootmem_vaddr);
 
-		init_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nid), bootmem_paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT,
+		init_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nid),
+				  __pa(bootmem_vaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT,
 				  start_pfn, end_pfn);
 
 		free_bootmem_with_active_regions(nid, end_pfn);
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