forked from luck/tmp_suning_uos_patched
69ac9cd629
This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the BIOS (or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like: /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start (hex number) end (hex number) type (string) ... /1/start end type With the following shell snippet one can print the memory map in the same form the kernel prints itself when booting on x86 (the E820 map). --------- 8< -------------------------- #!/bin/sh cd /sys/firmware/memmap for dir in * ; do start=$(cat $dir/start) end=$(cat $dir/end) type=$(cat $dir/type) printf "%016x-%016x (%s)\n" $start $[ $end +1] "$type" done --------- >8 -------------------------- That patch only provides the needed interface: 1. The sysfs interface. 2. The structure and enumeration definition. 3. The function firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early() that should be called from architecture code (E820/EFI, for example) to add the contents to the interface. If the kernel is compiled without CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP, the interface does nothing without cluttering the architecture-specific code with #ifdef's. The purpose of the new interface is kexec: While /proc/iomem represents the *used* memory map (e.g. modified via kernel parameters like 'memmap' and 'mem'), the /sys/firmware/memmap tree represents the unmodified memory map provided via the firmware. So kexec can: - use the original memory map for rebooting, - use the /proc/iomem for setting up the ELF core headers for kdump case that should only represent the memory of the system. The patch has been tested on i386 and x86_64. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
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accessibility | ||
acorn/char | ||
acpi | ||
amba | ||
ata | ||
atm | ||
auxdisplay | ||
base | ||
block | ||
bluetooth | ||
cdrom | ||
char | ||
clocksource | ||
connector | ||
cpufreq | ||
cpuidle | ||
crypto | ||
dca | ||
dio | ||
dma | ||
edac | ||
eisa | ||
firewire | ||
firmware | ||
gpio | ||
hid | ||
hwmon | ||
i2c | ||
ide | ||
ieee1394 | ||
infiniband | ||
input | ||
isdn | ||
leds | ||
lguest | ||
macintosh | ||
mca | ||
md | ||
media | ||
memstick | ||
message | ||
mfd | ||
misc | ||
mmc | ||
mtd | ||
net | ||
nubus | ||
of | ||
oprofile | ||
parisc | ||
parport | ||
pci | ||
pcmcia | ||
pnp | ||
power | ||
ps3 | ||
rapidio | ||
rtc | ||
s390 | ||
sbus | ||
scsi | ||
serial | ||
sh | ||
sn | ||
spi | ||
ssb | ||
tc | ||
telephony | ||
thermal | ||
uio | ||
usb | ||
video | ||
virtio | ||
w1 | ||
watchdog | ||
xen | ||
zorro | ||
Kconfig | ||
Makefile |