On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:40:52 +0200 (CEST)
moreau francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > BTW, ioresouce information (see kernel/resouce.c)
> >
> > [kamezawa@aworks Development]$ cat /proc/iomem | grep RAM
> > 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM
> > 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
> > 00100000-2dfeffff : System RAM
> >
> > is not enough ?
> >
>
> well actually you show that to get a really simple information, ie does
> a page exist ?, we need to parse some kernel data structures like
> ioresource (which is, IMHO, hackish) or duplicate in each architecture
> some data to keep track of existing pages.
>
becasue memory map from e820(x86) or efi(ia64) are registered to iomem_resource,
we should avoid duplicates that information. kdump and memory hotplug uses
this information. (memory hotplug updates this iomem_resource.)
Implementing "page_is_exist" function based on ioresouce is one of generic
and rubust way to go, I think.
(if performance of list walking is problem, enhancing ioresouce code is
better.)
-Kame
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