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From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
To: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kexec/s390x: use mmap instead of read for slurp_file()
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 21:39:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151030133904.GA18134@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151030111353.7fdf3762@holzheu>

Hi,
[snip]

> > >  		size = stats.st_size;
> > > +		if (use_mmap) {
> > > +			buf = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> > > +				   MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
> > 
> > Probably map it as readonly is enough.
> 
> Although I agree with you for the ramdisk case, I nevertheless would
> prefer to keep it writable to have the same semantics as for the
> malloc case.
> 
> So do you agree with the patch below?

Michael, it looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>

Thanks a lot.

> 
> Michael
> ---
>  kexec/arch/s390/kexec-image.c |    2 +-
>  kexec/kexec.c                 |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  kexec/kexec.h                 |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/kexec/arch/s390/kexec-image.c
> +++ b/kexec/arch/s390/kexec-image.c
> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ image_s390_load(int argc, char **argv, c
>  	 * we load the ramdisk directly behind the image with 1 MiB alignment.
>  	 */
>  	if (ramdisk) {
> -		rd_buffer = slurp_file(ramdisk, &ramdisk_len);
> +		rd_buffer = slurp_file_mmap(ramdisk, &ramdisk_len);
>  		if (rd_buffer == NULL) {
>  			fprintf(stderr, "Could not read ramdisk.\n");
>  			return -1;
> --- a/kexec/kexec.c
> +++ b/kexec/kexec.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>  #include <sys/types.h>
>  #include <sys/stat.h>
>  #include <sys/reboot.h>
> +#include <sys/mman.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  #include <fcntl.h>
>  #ifndef _O_BINARY
> @@ -514,7 +515,8 @@ static char *slurp_fd(int fd, const char
>  	return buf;
>  }
>  
> -char *slurp_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size)
> +static char *slurp_file_generic(const char *filename, off_t *r_size,
> +				int use_mmap)
>  {
>  	int fd;
>  	char *buf;
> @@ -552,11 +554,17 @@ char *slurp_file(const char *filename, o
>  		if (err < 0)
>  			die("Can not seek to the begin of file %s: %s\n",
>  					filename, strerror(errno));
> +		buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread);
>  	} else {
>  		size = stats.st_size;
> +		if (use_mmap) {
> +			buf = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> +				   MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
> +			nread = size;
> +		} else {
> +			buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread);
> +		}
>  	}
> -
> -	buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread);
>  	if (!buf)
>  		die("Cannot read %s", filename);
>  
> @@ -567,6 +575,23 @@ char *slurp_file(const char *filename, o
>  	return buf;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Read file into malloced buffer
> + */
> +char *slurp_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size)
> +{
> +	return slurp_file_generic(filename, r_size, 0);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Map "normal" file or read "character device" into malloced buffer.
> + * You must not use free, realloc, etc. with the returned buffer.
> + */
> +char *slurp_file_mmap(const char *filename, off_t *r_size)
> +{
> +	return slurp_file_generic(filename, r_size, 1);
> +}
> +
>  /* This functions reads either specified number of bytes from the file or
>     lesser if EOF is met. */
>  
> --- a/kexec/kexec.h
> +++ b/kexec/kexec.h
> @@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ extern void die(const char *fmt, ...)
>  extern void *xmalloc(size_t size);
>  extern void *xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size);
>  extern char *slurp_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size);
> +extern char *slurp_file_mmap(const char *filename, off_t *r_size);
>  extern char *slurp_file_len(const char *filename, off_t size, off_t *nread);
>  extern char *slurp_decompress_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size);
>  extern unsigned long virt_to_phys(unsigned long addr);
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-30 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-23  3:10 [PATCH] Revert "kexec: use mmap instead of read for slurp_file()" Dave Young
2015-10-23 15:09 ` Michael Holzheu
2015-10-26  7:31   ` Dave Young
2015-10-27 12:35     ` [PATCH v2] kexec/s390x: use mmap instead of read for slurp_file() Michael Holzheu
2015-10-28  6:46       ` Dave Young
2015-10-28  9:57         ` Michael Holzheu
2015-10-29  6:37           ` Dave Young
2015-10-29 15:26             ` Michael Holzheu
2015-10-30  2:03               ` Dave Young
2015-10-30 10:13                 ` Michael Holzheu
2015-10-30 13:39                   ` Dave Young [this message]
2015-10-30 15:02                     ` [PATCH v3] " Michael Holzheu
2015-11-09  1:59                       ` Simon Horman
2015-10-26  4:30 ` [PATCH] Revert "kexec: use mmap instead of read for slurp_file()" Simon Horman
2015-11-03  0:11 ` Geoff Levand
2015-11-03  1:15   ` Dave Young

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