Re: [PATCH 04/11] persistent_ram: Introduce persistent_ram_new()

Colin Cross
2012-05-15T00:38:01Z

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Anton Vorontsov
<anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> wrote:
> The routine just creates a persistent ram zone at a specified address.
>
> For persistent_ram_init_ringbuffer() we'd need to add a
> 'struct persistent_ram' to the global list, and associate it with a
> device. We don't need all this complexity in pstore_ram, so we introduce
> the simple function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.c |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.h |    4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.c b/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.c
> index ec23822..c0c3d32 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.c
> @@ -412,6 +412,32 @@ static int __init persistent_ram_post_init(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, bool
>        return 0;
>  }
>
> +struct persistent_ram_zone * __init persistent_ram_new(phys_addr_t start,
> +                                                      size_t size,
> +                                                      bool ecc)
> +{
> +       struct persistent_ram_zone *prz;
> +       int ret = -ENOMEM;
> +
> +       prz = kzalloc(sizeof(struct persistent_ram_zone), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       if (!prz) {
> +               pr_err("persistent_ram: failed to allocate persistent ram zone\n");
> +               goto err;
> +       }
> +
> +       ret = persistent_ram_buffer_map(start, size, prz);
> +       if (ret)
> +               goto err;
> +
> +       persistent_ram_post_init(prz, ecc);
> +       persistent_ram_update_header_ecc(prz);
> +
> +       return prz;
> +err:
> +       kfree(prz);
> +       return ERR_PTR(ret);
> +}
> +
>  static  __init
>  struct persistent_ram_zone *__persistent_ram_init(struct device *dev, bool ecc)
>  {
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.h b/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.h
> index 5635355..8154d15 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.h
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
>  #include <linux/list.h>
>  #include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
>
>  struct persistent_ram_buffer;
>
> @@ -62,6 +63,9 @@ struct persistent_ram_zone {
>
>  int persistent_ram_early_init(struct persistent_ram *ram);
>
> +struct persistent_ram_zone * __init persistent_ram_new(phys_addr_t start,
> +                                                      size_t size,
> +                                                      bool ecc);
>  struct persistent_ram_zone *persistent_ram_init_ringbuffer(struct device *dev,
>                bool ecc);
>
> --
> 1.7.9.2
>

Overall I like this series, but I'm not sure I agree with
persistent_ram_new(). The point of persistent_ram_early_init with the
call to memblock_reserve and the persistent_ram_descriptor list was to
have a single pool of persistent memory that could be parcelled out to
whatever drivers needed it, keeping the code out of the board file.
With persistent_ram_new, the board file is now responsible for making
sure that the memory has been reserved with memblock_reserve(), or,
even worse, mem= from the bootloader. Mixing the two methods together
would be confusing. Either persistent_ram_early_init should be
removed completely (or replaced with something that is easier to
register ramoops into), or ramoops should use
persistent_ram_init_ringbuffer like ram_console does.