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authorBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>2008-06-27 13:12:54 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-08 17:55:41 +0200
commit69ac9cd629ca96e59f34eb4ccd12d00b2c8276a7 (patch)
treee9bb108c5ec36c666d64a52ca35ccf0197c84306 /drivers/firmware/Makefile
parent6247943d8ab699b57653afd453a4940cca70ef8a (diff)
sysfs: add /sys/firmware/memmap
This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the BIOS (or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like: /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start (hex number) end (hex number) type (string) ... /1/start end type With the following shell snippet one can print the memory map in the same form the kernel prints itself when booting on x86 (the E820 map). --------- 8< -------------------------- #!/bin/sh cd /sys/firmware/memmap for dir in * ; do start=$(cat $dir/start) end=$(cat $dir/end) type=$(cat $dir/type) printf "%016x-%016x (%s)\n" $start $[ $end +1] "$type" done --------- >8 -------------------------- That patch only provides the needed interface: 1. The sysfs interface. 2. The structure and enumeration definition. 3. The function firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early() that should be called from architecture code (E820/EFI, for example) to add the contents to the interface. If the kernel is compiled without CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP, the interface does nothing without cluttering the architecture-specific code with #ifdef's. The purpose of the new interface is kexec: While /proc/iomem represents the *used* memory map (e.g. modified via kernel parameters like 'memmap' and 'mem'), the /sys/firmware/memmap tree represents the unmodified memory map provided via the firmware. So kexec can: - use the original memory map for rebooting, - use the /proc/iomem for setting up the ELF core headers for kdump case that should only represent the memory of the system. The patch has been tested on i386 and x86_64. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/Makefile
index 4c9147154df..1c3c17343db 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/Makefile
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DCDBAS) += dcdbas.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DMIID) += dmi-id.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT_FIND) += iscsi_ibft_find.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT) += iscsi_ibft.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP) += memmap.o