[PATCH 00/12] mips: Post-bootmem-memblock transition fixes

Serge Semin
2019-04-23T22:49:04Z

First attempt of making the MIPS subsystem utilizing the memblock early memory
allocator was done by me a few years ago. I created a patchset with
21 patches [1]. It turned out to be too complicated and I decided to resend a
reworked patchset with smaller number of changes [2]. I did this and after a
small review process a v2 patchset was also posted. Then my spare
time was over and I couldn't proceed with the patchset support and
resubmission.

In a year Mike Rapoport took charge in this task and posted a small
patch which essentially did the bootmem allocator removal from MIPS
subsystem [3]. A single small patch did in general the whole thing my huge
patchsetes were intended for in the first place (though it lacked a few fixes).
Mike even went further and completely removed the bootmem allocator from
kernel code, so all the subsystems would need to use the only one early
memory allocator. This significantly simplified the platforms code as well
as removed a deprecated subsystem with duplicated functionality. Million
credits to Mike for this.

Getting back to the MIPS subsystem and it memblock allocator usage. Even
though the patch suggested by Mike [3] fixed most of the problems caused
by enabling the memblock allocator usage, some of them have been left
uncovered by it. First of all the PFNs calculation algorithm hasn't been
fully refactored. A reserved memory declaration loop has been left
untouched though it was clearly over-complicated for the new initialization
procedure. Secondly the MIPS platform code reserved the whole space below
kernel start address, which doesn't seem right since kernel can be
located much higher than memory space really starts. Thirdly CMA if it
is enabled reserves memory regions by means of memblock in the first place.
So the bootmem-init code doesn't need to do it again. Fifthly at early
platform initialization stage non of bootmem-left methods can be called
since there is no memory pages mapping at that moment, so __nosave* region
must be reserved by means of memblock allocator. Finally aside from memblock
allocator introduction my early patchsets included a series of useful
alterations like "nomap" property implementation for "reserved-memory"
dts-nodes, memblock_dump_all() method call after early memory allocator
initialization for debugging, low-memory test procedure, kernel memory
mapping printout at boot-time, and so on. So all of these fixes and
alterations are introduced in this new patchset. Please review. Hope
this time I'll be more responsive and finish this series up until it
is merged.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/18/195
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/17/1201
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/10/302

NOTE I added a few "Reviewed-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>"
since some patches of this series have been picked up from my earlier
patchsets, which Matt's already reviewed. I didn't add the tag for patches,
which were either new or partially ported.

Serge Semin (12):
mips: Make sure kernel .bss exists in boot mem pool
mips: Discard rudiments from bootmem_init
mips: Combine memblock init and memory reservation loops
mips: Reserve memory for the kernel image resources
mips: Discard post-CMA-init foreach loop
mips: Use memblock to reserve the __nosave memory range
mips: Add reserve-nomap memory type support
mips: Dump memblock regions for debugging
mips: Perform early low memory test
mips: Print the kernel virtual mem layout on debugging
mips: Make sure dt memory regions are valid
mips: Enable OF_RESERVED_MEM config

arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/mips/include/asm/bootinfo.h | 1 +
arch/mips/kernel/prom.c | 18 ++++-
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 129 +++++++++----------------------
arch/mips/mm/init.c | 49 ++++++++++++
5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)

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