* Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> [2007-10-17 13:05]:
>
> [..]
> > +/*
> > + * If flags is 0, then the return value is always 0 (success). If
> > + * flags contains BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE, then -EBUSY is returned if the
> > + * memory already was reserved.
> > + */
> > +extern int reserve_bootmem(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size, int flags);
> > #define alloc_bootmem(x) \
> > __alloc_bootmem(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
> > #define alloc_bootmem_low(x) \
> > --- a/mm/bootmem.c
> > +++ b/mm/bootmem.c
> > @@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ static unsigned long __init init_bootmem
> > * might be used for boot-time allocations - or it might get added
> > * to the free page pool later on.
> > */
> > -static void __init reserve_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata, unsigned long addr,
> > - unsigned long size)
> > +static int __init reserve_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata, unsigned long addr,
> > + unsigned long size, int flags)
> > {
> > unsigned long sidx, eidx;
> > unsigned long i;
> > @@ -133,7 +133,11 @@ static void __init reserve_bootmem_core(
> > #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOTMEM
> > printk("hm, page %08lx reserved twice.\n", i*PAGE_SIZE);
> > #endif
> > + if (flags & BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE)
> > + return -EBUSY;
>
> I think we should unreserve the chunks of memory we have reserved so
> far (Memory reserved from sidx to i), in case of error.
Unfortunately, that's not possible without using a lock (or counters
instead of a bitmap) any more. If we just do
for (i--; i >= sidx; i--)
clear_bit(i, bdata->node_bootmem_map);
then another thread of execution could reserve the memory (without
BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE) in between -- and the code would free the memory
which is already reserved.
I think that could be modelled with a rwlock, not changing the default
case where BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE is not specified.
Thanks,
Bernhard
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