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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-01-28 13:46:28 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-01-28 14:42:30 +0100
commit5da217ca967b9d7a0bbbd8edd06749c99a4fe501 (patch)
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parentx86/boot/e820: Clarify the role of finish_e820_parsing() and rename it to e82... (diff)
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x86/boot/e820: Rename early_reserve_e820() to e820__memblock_alloc() and document it
early_reserve_e820() is an early hack for kexec that does a limited fixup of the mptable and passes it to the kexec kernel as if it was the real thing. For this it needs to allocate memory - but no memory allocator is available yet beyond the memblock allocator, so early_reserve_e820() is really a wrapper around memblock_alloc() plus a hack to update the e820_table_firmware entries. The name 'reserve' is really a bit of a misnomer, as 'reserved' memory typically means memory completely inaccessible to the kernel - while here what we want to do is a special RAM allocation for our own purposes and insert that as RAM_RESERVED. Rename the function to e820__memblock_alloc_reserved() to better signal this dual purpose, plus document it better, which was omitted when it was merged. The barely comprehensible and cryptic comment: /* * pre allocated 4k and reserved it in memblock and e820_table_firmware */ u64 __init e820__memblock_alloc_reserved(u64 size, u64 align) ... does not count as documentation, replace it with: /* * Allocate the requested number of bytes with the requsted alignment * and return (the physical address) to the caller. Also register this * range in the 'firmware' E820 table. * * This allows kexec to fake a new mptable, as if it came from the real * system. */ u64 __init e820__memblock_alloc_reserved(u64 size, u64 align) No change in functionality. Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/mpspec.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/mpspec.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mpspec.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mpspec.h
index 32007041ef8c..831eb7895535 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mpspec.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mpspec.h
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static inline void find_smp_config(void)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE
-extern void early_reserve_e820_mpc_new(void);
+extern void e820__memblock_alloc_reserved_mpc_new(void);
extern int enable_update_mptable;
extern int default_mpc_apic_id(struct mpc_cpu *m);
extern void default_smp_read_mpc_oem(struct mpc_table *mpc);
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ extern void default_mpc_oem_bus_info(struct mpc_bus *m, char *str);
extern void default_find_smp_config(void);
extern void default_get_smp_config(unsigned int early);
#else
-static inline void early_reserve_e820_mpc_new(void) { }
+static inline void e820__memblock_alloc_reserved_mpc_new(void) { }
#define enable_update_mptable 0
#define default_mpc_apic_id NULL
#define default_smp_read_mpc_oem NULL