From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] export e820 table on x86
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:01:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDD49A0.2050907@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021121020953.A13644@infradead.org
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:00:35PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
>>I stole a patch that Arjan did a while ago, and ported it up to 2.5:
>>http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/rh80/SOURCES/linux-2.4.0-e820.patch
>>
>>We need this so avoid making BIOS calls when using kexec.
>
> It should at least use seq_file, and I'm not sure whether it wouldn't
> better fit into sysfs (don't ask me where exactly :))
Better?
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Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com
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diff -Nru a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig Thu Nov 21 12:59:44 2002
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig Thu Nov 21 12:59:44 2002
@@ -636,6 +636,11 @@
with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to
/dev/cpu/31/cpuid.
+config E820_PROC
+ bool 'E820 proc support'
+ help
+ This exports the BIOS memory map. It is used by kexec
+
config EDD
tristate "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile b/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile Thu Nov 21 12:59:44 2002
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile Thu Nov 21 12:59:44 2002
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
obj-y += timers/
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_BIOS_REBOOT) += reboot.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MCA) += mca.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_E820_PROC) += e820.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_MSR) += msr.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_CPUID) += cpuid.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MICROCODE) += microcode.o
diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/e820.c b/arch/i386/kernel/e820.c
--- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/e820.c Thu Nov 21 12:59:44 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+/* Copyright (c) 2001 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * This software may be freely redistributed under the terms of the
+ * GNU General Public License.
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+ *
+ * Author: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com
+ * hacked to use seq_file by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
+ */
+#include <linux/config.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/init.h> /* for module_init/exit */
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/seq_file.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#include <asm/e820.h>
+
+static void* e820info_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
+{
+ if ((unsigned long long)*pos < e820.nr_map )
+ return (void *)(unsigned long)((*pos)+1);
+ else
+ return NULL;
+
+}
+
+static void* e820info_next(struct seq_file *m, void *arg, loff_t *pos)
+{
+ (*pos)++;
+ return e820info_start(m, pos);
+}
+
+static int e820info_show(struct seq_file *m, void *arg)
+{
+ unsigned long off = (unsigned long)arg - 1;
+
+ seq_printf(m, "%016Lx @ %016Lx %lu\n",
+ e820.map[off].size,
+ e820.map[off].addr,
+ e820.map[off].type);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void e820info_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *arg)
+{
+ kfree(m->private);
+ m->private = NULL;
+}
+
+static struct seq_operations e820info_op = {
+ .start = e820info_start,
+ .next = e820info_next,
+ .stop = e820info_stop,
+ .show = e820info_show,
+};
+
+extern struct seq_operations e820info_op;
+static int e820info_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+ return seq_open(file, &e820info_op);
+}
+static struct file_operations proc_e820info_operations = {
+ .open = e820info_open,
+ .read = seq_read,
+ .llseek = seq_lseek,
+ .release = seq_release,
+};
+
+extern struct e820map e820;
+struct proc_dir_entry *e820_proc_entry;
+
+int e820_module_init(void)
+{
+ /* /proc/e820info probably isn't the best place for it, need
+ to find a better one */
+ e820_proc_entry = create_proc_entry ("e820info", 0, NULL);
+ if (e820_proc_entry==NULL)
+ return -EIO;
+
+ e820_proc_entry->owner = THIS_MODULE;
+ e820_proc_entry->proc_fops = &proc_e820info_operations;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+void e820_module_exit(void)
+{
+ remove_proc_entry ("e820info", e820_proc_entry);
+}
+
+module_init(e820_module_init);
+module_exit(e820_module_exit);
+
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-21 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-21 2:00 [PATCH] export e820 table on x86 Dave Hansen
2002-11-21 2:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-21 21:01 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2002-11-21 22:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-21 23:46 ` Dave Hansen
2002-11-22 0:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-22 0:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-22 6:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-22 7:50 ` Dave Hansen
2002-11-22 8:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-22 17:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-11-22 22:37 ` Dave Hansen
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