[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mm: Fix memory_block_size_bytes() for non-pseries

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Fri Jul 1 22:15:16 EST 2011


* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> Just compiling pseries in the kernel causes it to override
> memory_block_size_bytes() regardless of what is the runtime
> platform.
> 
> This cleans up the implementation of that function, fixing
> a bug or two while at it, so that it's harmless (and potentially
> useful) for other platforms. Without this, bugs in that code
> would trigger a WARN_ON() in drivers/base/memory.c when
> booting some different platforms. 
> 
> If/when we have another platform supporting memory hotplug we
> might want to either move that out to a generic place or
> make it a ppc_md. callback.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> index 33867ec..9d6a8ef 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/memblock.h>
>  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> +#include <linux/memory.h>
> +
>  #include <asm/firmware.h>
>  #include <asm/machdep.h>
>  #include <asm/pSeries_reconfig.h>
> @@ -20,24 +22,25 @@
>  static unsigned long get_memblock_size(void)
>  {
>  	struct device_node *np;
> -	unsigned int memblock_size = 0;
> +	unsigned int memblock_size = MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;
> +	struct resource r;
>  
>  	np = of_find_node_by_path("/ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory");
>  	if (np) {
> -		const unsigned long *size;
> +		const __be64 *size;
>  
>  		size = of_get_property(np, "ibm,lmb-size", NULL);
> -		memblock_size = size ? *size : 0;
> -
> +		if (size)
> +			memblock_size = be64_to_cpup(size);
>  		of_node_put(np);
> -	} else {
> +	} else  if (machine_is(pseries)) {
> +		/* This fallback really only applies to pseries */
>  		unsigned int memzero_size = 0;
> -		const unsigned int *regs;
>  
>  		np = of_find_node_by_path("/memory at 0");
>  		if (np) {
> -			regs = of_get_property(np, "reg", NULL);
> -			memzero_size = regs ? regs[3] : 0;
> +			if (!of_address_to_resource(np, 0, &r))
> +				memzero_size = resource_size(&r);
>  			of_node_put(np);
>  		}
>  
> @@ -50,16 +53,21 @@ static unsigned long get_memblock_size(void)
>  			sprintf(buf, "/memory@%x", memzero_size);
>  			np = of_find_node_by_path(buf);
>  			if (np) {
> -				regs = of_get_property(np, "reg", NULL);
> -				memblock_size = regs ? regs[3] : 0;
> +				if (!of_address_to_resource(np, 0, &r))
> +					memblock_size = resource_size(&r);
>  				of_node_put(np);
>  			}
>  		}
>  	}
> -
>  	return memblock_size;
>  }
>  
> +/* WARNING: This is going to override the generic definition whenever
> + * pseries is built-in regardless of what platform is active at boot
> + * time. This is fine for now as this is the only "option" and it
> + * should work everywhere. If not, we'll have to turn this into a
> + * ppc_md. callback
> + */

Just a small nit, please use the customary (multi-line) comment 
style:

  /*
   * Comment .....
   * ...... goes here.
   */

specified in Documentation/CodingStyle.

Thanks,

        Ingo


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