Re: Reserving a fixed physical address page of RAM.

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On 11/30/06, Jon Ringle <[email protected]> wrote:
Jon Ringle wrote:
> Fawad Lateef wrote:
<snip>
> > >
> > > Index: linux/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> > >
> ===================================================================
> > > --- linux.orig/arch/arm/mm/init.c       2006-11-30
> > 11:03:00.000000000
> > > -0500
> > > +++ linux/arch/arm/mm/init.c    2006-11-30
> 11:09:09.000000000 -0500
> > > @@ -429,6 +429,10 @@
> > >         unsigned long addr;
> > >         void *vectors;
> > >
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MACH_VERTICAL_RSC4
> > > +       reserve_bootmem (0x0ffff000, 0x1000); #endif
> > > +
> > >         /*
> > >          * Allocate the vector page early.
> > >          */
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I think you can do like this but can't say accurately
> because I havn't
> > worked on arm architecture and also you havn't mentioned your
> > kernel-version or function (in file
> > arch/arm/mm/init.c) which you are going to do call reserve_bootmem !
>
> Kernel version is 2.6.16.29 and the reserve_bootmem() call
> above is at the top of the function devicemaps_init().

Is there some way I can verify that the above works? I've tried the
following to try to get info on the reservation:
        # cat /proc/iomem
        # cat /proc/meminfo
        # cat /proc/slabinfo
        # echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger

The only one that hints that this might have worked is the `echo m >
/proc/sysrq-trigger` in that I see the reserved pages count one larger
than using a kernel without this patch. Does this mean that the page I
reserved won't get used by Linux for any purpose?


I havn't looked at " # echo m /proc/sysrq-trigger" till now but I am
almost sure that it will reserve/work because calling reserve_bootmem
internally sets the bit representing physical memory page (CMIIW).


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Fawad Lateef
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