Re: [PATCH 2/3 v4] resource: Add new flag IORESOURCE_MEM_WARN

From: Boaz Harrosh
Date: Wed Feb 25 2015 - 01:36:43 EST


On 02/24/2015 07:04 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Resource providers set this flag if they want
>> that request_region will print a warning in dmesg
>> if this particular memory resource is locked by a driver.
>>
>> Thous acting as a Protocol Police about experimental
>> devices that did not pass a committee approval.
>>
>> The Only user of this flag is x86/kernel/e820.c that
>> wants to WARN about UNKNOWN memory types.
>>
>> NOTE: It would be preferred if I defined a general flag say
>> IORESOURCE_WARN, where any kind of resource provider
>> can WARN on use, but we have run out of flags in the
>> 32bit long systems. So I defined a free bit from the
>> resource specific flags for mem resources. This is
>> why I need to check if this is a memory resource first
>> so not to conflict with other resource specific flags.
>> (Though actually no one is using this specific bit)
>>
>> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
>> CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 3 +++
>> include/linux/ioport.h | 1 +
>> kernel/resource.c | 9 ++++++++-
>> 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>> index 1a8a1c3..105bb37 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>> @@ -961,6 +961,9 @@ void __init e820_reserve_resources(void)
>>
>> res->flags = IORESOURCE_MEM;
>>
>> + if (_is_unknown_type(e820.map[i].type))
>> + res->flags |= IORESOURCE_MEM_WARN;
>> +
>> /*
>> * don't register the region that could be conflicted with
>> * pci device BAR resource and insert them later in
>> diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
>> index 2c525022..f78972b 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/ioport.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
>> @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ struct resource {
>> #define IORESOURCE_MEM_32BIT (3<<3)
>> #define IORESOURCE_MEM_SHADOWABLE (1<<5) /* dup: IORESOURCE_SHADOWABLE */
>> #define IORESOURCE_MEM_EXPANSIONROM (1<<6)
>> +#define IORESOURCE_MEM_WARN (1<<7) /* WARN if requested by driver */
>>
>> /* PnP I/O specific bits (IORESOURCE_BITS) */
>> #define IORESOURCE_IO_16BIT_ADDR (1<<0)
>> diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
>> index 19f2357..4bab16f 100644
>> --- a/kernel/resource.c
>> +++ b/kernel/resource.c
>> @@ -1075,8 +1075,15 @@ struct resource * __request_region(struct resource *parent,
>> break;
>> if (conflict != parent) {
>> parent = conflict;
>> - if (!(conflict->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY))
>> + if (!(conflict->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY)) {
>> + if (unlikely(
>
> No need for unlikely(), this isn't a hot path.
>
>> + (resource_type(conflict) == IORESOURCE_MEM)
>> + && (conflict->flags & IORESOURCE_MEM_WARN)))
>> + pr_warn("request region with unknown memory type [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] %s\n",
>> + conflict->start, conflict->end,
>> + conflict->name);
>
> I think this should also dump the res->name to identify who is requesting it.
>

OK Will send a version 4

Thanks
Boaz

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