[PATCH 7/8] pseries: phyp dump: Tracking memory range freed.
Manish Ahuja
ahuja at austin.ibm.com
Sat Mar 22 10:47:04 EST 2008
This patch tracks the size freed. For now it does a simple
rudimentary calculation of the ranges freed. The idea is
to keep it simple at the external shell script level and
send in large chunks for now.
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja at us.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
Index: 2.6.25-rc1/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.25-rc1.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c 2008-03-21 22:14:00.000000000 -0500
+++ 2.6.25-rc1/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c 2008-03-21 22:14:05.000000000 -0500
@@ -261,6 +261,39 @@ static void release_memory_range(unsigne
}
}
+/**
+ * track_freed_range -- Counts the range being freed.
+ * Once the counter goes to zero, it re-registers dump for
+ * future use.
+ */
+static void
+track_freed_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long length)
+{
+ static unsigned long scratch_area_size, reserved_area_size;
+
+ if (addr < phyp_dump_info->init_reserve_start)
+ return;
+
+ if ((addr >= phyp_dump_info->init_reserve_start) &&
+ (addr <= phyp_dump_info->init_reserve_start +
+ phyp_dump_info->init_reserve_size))
+ reserved_area_size += length;
+
+ if ((addr >= phyp_dump_info->reserved_scratch_addr) &&
+ (addr <= phyp_dump_info->reserved_scratch_addr +
+ phyp_dump_info->reserved_scratch_size))
+ scratch_area_size += length;
+
+ if ((reserved_area_size == phyp_dump_info->init_reserve_size) &&
+ (scratch_area_size == phyp_dump_info->reserved_scratch_size)) {
+
+ invalidate_last_dump(&phdr,
+ phyp_dump_info->reserved_scratch_addr);
+ register_dump_area(&phdr,
+ phyp_dump_info->reserved_scratch_addr);
+ }
+}
+
/* ------------------------------------------------- */
/**
* sysfs_release_region -- sysfs interface to release memory range.
@@ -285,6 +318,8 @@ static ssize_t store_release_region(stru
if (ret != 2)
return -EINVAL;
+ track_freed_range(start_addr, length);
+
/* Range-check - don't free any reserved memory that
* wasn't reserved for phyp-dump */
if (start_addr < phyp_dump_info->init_reserve_start)
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