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authorMark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>2010-04-21 16:21:03 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-05-06 16:49:27 +1000
commit91eea67c6d8704396a98226508c56a8501e141e3 (patch)
tree94d65c6bae001fa3835398056fea936720e86ed7 /arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
parent13bb5339966d49942878a46b0a7fda0639d7db5f (diff)
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powerpc/mm: Track backing pages allocated by vmemmap_populate()
We need to keep track of the backing pages that get allocated by vmemmap_populate() so that when we use kdump, the dump-capture kernel knows where these pages are. We use a simple linked list of structures that contain the physical address of the backing page and corresponding virtual address to track the backing pages. To save space, we just use a pointer to the next struct vmemmap_backing. We can also do this because we never remove nodes. We call the pointer "list" to be compatible with changes made to the crash utility. vmemmap_populate() is called either at boot-time or on a memory hotplug operation. We don't have to worry about the boot-time calls because they will be inherently single-threaded, and for a memory hotplug operation vmemmap_populate() is called through: sparse_add_one_section() | V kmalloc_section_memmap() | V sparse_mem_map_populate() | V vmemmap_populate() and in sparse_add_one_section() we're protected by pgdat_resize_lock(). So, we don't need a spinlock to protect the vmemmap_list. We allocate space for the vmemmap_backing structs by allocating whole pages in vmemmap_list_alloc() and then handing out chunks of this to vmemmap_list_populate(). This means that we waste at most just under one page, but this keeps the code is simple. Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c43
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
index d7fa50b09b4a..e267f223fdff 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -252,6 +252,47 @@ static void __meminit vmemmap_create_mapping(unsigned long start,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E */
+struct vmemmap_backing *vmemmap_list;
+
+static __meminit struct vmemmap_backing * vmemmap_list_alloc(int node)
+{
+ static struct vmemmap_backing *next;
+ static int num_left;
+
+ /* allocate a page when required and hand out chunks */
+ if (!next || !num_left) {
+ next = vmemmap_alloc_block(PAGE_SIZE, node);
+ if (unlikely(!next)) {
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ num_left = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct vmemmap_backing);
+ }
+
+ num_left--;
+
+ return next++;
+}
+
+static __meminit void vmemmap_list_populate(unsigned long phys,
+ unsigned long start,
+ int node)
+{
+ struct vmemmap_backing *vmem_back;
+
+ vmem_back = vmemmap_list_alloc(node);
+ if (unlikely(!vmem_back)) {
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ vmem_back->phys = phys;
+ vmem_back->virt_addr = start;
+ vmem_back->list = vmemmap_list;
+
+ vmemmap_list = vmem_back;
+}
+
int __meminit vmemmap_populate(struct page *start_page,
unsigned long nr_pages, int node)
{
@@ -276,6 +317,8 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(struct page *start_page,
if (!p)
return -ENOMEM;
+ vmemmap_list_populate(__pa(p), start, node);
+
pr_debug(" * %016lx..%016lx allocated at %p\n",
start, start + page_size, p);