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resource: Add System RAM resource type
authorToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:57:17 +0000 (21:57 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 30 Jan 2016 08:49:56 +0000 (09:49 +0100)
commit9babd5c8caa6e62c116efc3a64a09f65af4112b0
tree01e864aead6fe45fb5f9cef9b05ceae7075eb326
parentad0b40fa944628d6f30b40266a599b285d70a266
resource: Add System RAM resource type

The IORESOURCE_MEM I/O resource type is used for all types of
memory-mapped ranges, ex. System RAM, System ROM, Video RAM,
Persistent Memory, PCI Bus, PCI MMCONFIG, ACPI Tables, IOAPIC,
reserved, and so on.

This requires walk_system_ram_range(), walk_system_ram_res(),
and region_intersects() to use strcmp() against string "System
RAM" to search for System RAM ranges in the iomem table, which
is inefficient. __ioremap_caller() and reserve_memtype() on x86,
for instance, call walk_system_ram_range() for every request to
check if a given range is in System RAM ranges.

However, adding a new I/O resource type for System RAM is not a
viable option, see [1]. There are approx. 3800 references to
IORESOURCE_MEM in the kernel/drivers, which makes it very
difficult to distinguish their usages between new type and
IORESOURCE_MEM.

The I/O resource types are also used by the PNP subsystem.
Therefore, introduce an extended I/O resource type,
IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM, which consists of IORESOURCE_MEM and a
new modifier flag IORESOURCE_SYSRAM, see [2].

To keep the code 'if (resource_type(r) == IORESOURCE_MEM)' still
working for System RAM, resource_ext_type() is added for
extracting extended type bits.

Link[1]: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449168859.9855.54.camel@hpe.com
Link[2]: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFy4WQrWexC4u2LxX9Mw2NVoznw7p3Yh=iF4Xtf7zKWnRw@mail.gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: Jakub Sitnicki <jsitnicki@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453841853-11383-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/ioport.h