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Stephen Bates 36a3d1dd4e lib/genalloc.c: make the avail variable an atomic_long_t
If the amount of resources allocated to a gen_pool exceeds 2^32 then the
avail atomic overflows and this causes problems when clients try and
borrow resources from the pool.  This is only expected to be an issue on
64 bit systems.

Add the <linux/atomic.h> header to pull in atomic_long* operations.  So
that 32 bit systems continue to use atomic32_t but 64 bit systems can
use atomic64_t.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509033843-25667-1-git-send-email-sbates@raithlin.com
Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
Jonathan Corbet a27bfcab5c genalloc: Fix an incorrect kerneldoc comment
The kerneldoc comment for the genpool_algo_t typedef was incomplete and
incorrectly formatted, leading to a raft of warnings during the docs build.
Fix it appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-08-31 09:47:22 -06:00
Zhao Qiang b26981c8f7 genalloc:support allocating specific region
Add new algo for genalloc, it reserve a specific region of
memory

Signed-off-by: Zhao Qiang <qiang.zhao@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2015-12-22 17:10:17 -06:00
Zhao Qiang de2dd0eb30 genalloc:support memory-allocation with bytes-alignment to genalloc
Bytes alignment is required to manage some special RAM,
so add gen_pool_first_fit_align to genalloc,
meanwhile add gen_pool_alloc_algo to pass algo in case user
layer using more than one algo, and pass data to
gen_pool_first_fit_align(modify gen_pool_alloc as a wrapper)

Signed-off-by: Zhao Qiang <qiang.zhao@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2015-12-22 17:10:17 -06:00
Vladimir Zapolskiy c98c36355d genalloc: add support of multiple gen_pools per device
This change fills devm_gen_pool_create()/gen_pool_get() "name" argument
stub with contents and extends of_gen_pool_get() functionality on this
basis.

If there is no associated platform device with a device node passed to
of_gen_pool_get(), the function attempts to get a label property or device
node name (= repeats MTD OF partition standard) and seeks for a named
gen_pool registered by device of the parent device node.

The main idea of the change is to allow registration of independent
gen_pools under the same umbrella device, say "partitions" on "storage
device", the original functionality of one "partition" per "storage
device" is untouched.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix constness in devres_find()]
[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: freeing const data pointers]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Vladimir Zapolskiy 7385817359 genalloc: add name arg to gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create()
This change modifies gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create() client
interfaces adding one more argument "name" of a gen_pool object.

Due to implementation gen_pool_get() is capable to retrieve only one
gen_pool associated with a device even if multiple gen_pools are created,
fortunately right at the moment it is sufficient for the clients, hence
provide NULL as a valid argument on both producer devm_gen_pool_create()
and consumer gen_pool_get() sides.

Because only one created gen_pool per device is addressable, explicitly
add a restriction to devm_gen_pool_create() to create only one gen_pool
per device, this implies two possible error codes returned by the
function, account it on client side (only misc/sram).  This completes
client side changes related to genalloc updates.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: gen_pool_get() cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Vladimir Zapolskiy abdd4a7025 genalloc: rename of_get_named_gen_pool() to of_gen_pool_get()
To be consistent with other kernel interface namings, rename
of_get_named_gen_pool() to of_gen_pool_get().  In the original function
name "_named" suffix references to a device tree property, which contains
a phandle to a device and the corresponding device driver is assumed to
register a gen_pool object.

Due to a weak relation and to avoid any confusion (e.g.  in future
possible scenario if gen_pool objects are named) the suffix is removed.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: crypto/marvell/cesa - fix up for of_get_named_gen_pool() rename]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-30 19:45:01 -07:00
Vladimir Zapolskiy 0030edf296 genalloc: rename dev_get_gen_pool() to gen_pool_get()
To be consistent with other genalloc interface namings, rename
dev_get_gen_pool() to gen_pool_get().  The original omitted "dev_" prefix
is removed, since it points to argument type of the function, and so it
does not bring any useful information.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update arch/arm/mach-socfpga/pm.c]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Alan Tull <atull@opensource.altera.com>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@opensource.altera.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-30 19:45:01 -07:00
Laura Abbott 9efb3a421d lib/genalloc.c: add genpool range check function
After allocating an address from a particular genpool, there is no good
way to verify if that address actually belongs to a genpool.  Introduce
addr_in_gen_pool which will return if an address plus size falls
completely within the genpool range.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Riley <davidriley@chromium.org>
Cc: Ritesh Harjain <ritesh.harjani@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-09 22:25:52 -04:00
Laura Abbott 505e3be6c0 lib/genalloc.c: add power aligned algorithm
One of the more common algorithms used for allocation is to align the
start address of the allocation to the order of size requested.  Add this
as an algorithm option for genalloc.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Riley <davidriley@chromium.org>
Cc: Ritesh Harjain <ritesh.harjani@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-09 22:25:52 -04:00
Shawn Guo b30afea019 include/linux/genalloc.h: spinlock_t needs spinlock_types.h
Compiling a C file which includes genalloc.h but without
spinlock_types.h being included before, we will see the compile error
below.

 include/linux/genalloc.h:54:2: error: unknown type name `spinlock_t'

Include spinlock_types.h from genalloc.h to fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
Nicolin Chen 684f0d3d14 lib/genalloc: add a helper function for DMA buffer allocation
When using pool space for DMA buffer, there might be duplicated calling of
gen_pool_alloc() and gen_pool_virt_to_phys() in each implementation.

Thus it's better to add a simple helper function, a compatible one to the
common dma_alloc_coherent(), to save some code.

Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <b42378@freescale.com>
Cc: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-13 12:09:22 +09:00
Joonyoung Shim 674470d979 lib/genalloc.c: fix overflow of ending address of memory chunk
In struct gen_pool_chunk, end_addr means the end address of memory chunk
(inclusive), but in the implementation it is treated as address + size of
memory chunk (exclusive), so it points to the address plus one instead of
correct ending address.

The ending address of memory chunk plus one will cause overflow on the
memory chunk including the last address of memory map, e.g.  when starting
address is 0xFFF00000 and size is 0x100000 on 32bit machine, ending
address will be 0x100000000.

Use correct ending address like starting address + size - 1.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment to struct gen_pool_chunk:end_addr]
Signed-off-by: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:57:35 -07:00
Philipp Zabel 9375db07ad genalloc: add devres support, allow to find a managed pool by device
This patch adds three exported functions to lib/genalloc.c:
devm_gen_pool_create, dev_get_gen_pool, and of_get_named_gen_pool.

devm_gen_pool_create is a managed version of gen_pool_create that keeps
track of the pool via devres and allows the management code to
automatically destroy it after device removal.

dev_get_gen_pool retrieves the gen_pool for a given device, if it was
created with devm_gen_pool_create, using devres_find.

of_get_named_gen_pool retrieves the gen_pool for a given device node and
property name, where the property must contain a phandle pointing to a
platform device node.  The corresponding platform device is then fed into
dev_get_gen_pool and the resulting gen_pool is returned.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make the of_get_named_gen_pool() stub static, fixing a zillion link errors]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: squish "struct device declared inside parameter list" warning]
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>
Cc: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Javier Martin <javier.martin@vista-silicon.com>
Cc: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 18:28:13 -07:00
Benjamin Gaignard ca279cf106 genalloc: make it possible to use a custom allocation algorithm
Premit use of another algorithm than the default first-fit one.  For
example a custom algorithm could be used to manage alignment requirements.

As I can't predict all the possible requirements/needs for all allocation
uses cases, I add a "free" field 'void *data' to pass any needed
information to the allocation function.  For example 'data' could be used
to handle a structure where you store the alignment, the expected memory
bank, the requester device, or any information that could influence the
allocation algorithm.

An usage example may look like this:
struct my_pool_constraints {
	int align;
	int bank;
	...
};

unsigned long my_custom_algo(unsigned long *map, unsigned long size,
		unsigned long start, unsigned int nr, void *data)
{
	struct my_pool_constraints *constraints = data;
	...
	deal with allocation contraints
	...
	return the index in bitmap where perform the allocation
}

void create_my_pool()
{
	struct my_pool_constraints c;
	struct gen_pool *pool = gen_pool_create(...);
	gen_pool_add(pool, ...);
	gen_pool_set_algo(pool, my_custom_algo, &c);
}

Add of best-fit algorithm function:
most of the time best-fit is slower then first-fit but memory fragmentation
is lower. The random buffer allocation/free tests don't show any arithmetic
relation between the allocation time and fragmentation but the
best-fit algorithm
is sometime able to perform the allocation when the first-fit can't.

This new algorithm help to remove static allocations on ESRAM, a small but
fast on-chip RAM of few KB, used for high-performance uses cases like DMA
linked lists, graphic accelerators, encoders/decoders. On the Ux500
(in the ARM tree) we have define 5 ESRAM banks of 128 KB each and use of
static allocations becomes unmaintainable:
cd arch/arm/mach-ux500 && grep -r ESRAM .
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:/* Base address and bank offsets for ESRAM */
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_ESRAM_BASE   0x40000000
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_ESRAM_BANK_SIZE      0x00020000
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_ESRAM_BANK0  U8500_ESRAM_BASE
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_ESRAM_BANK1       (U8500_ESRAM_BASE + U8500_ESRAM_BANK_SIZE)
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_ESRAM_BANK2       (U8500_ESRAM_BANK1 + U8500_ESRAM_BANK_SIZE)
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_ESRAM_BANK3       (U8500_ESRAM_BANK2 + U8500_ESRAM_BANK_SIZE)
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_ESRAM_BANK4       (U8500_ESRAM_BANK3 + U8500_ESRAM_BANK_SIZE)
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_ESRAM_DMA_LCPA_OFFSET     0x10000
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_DMA_LCPA_BASE
(U8500_ESRAM_BANK0 + U8500_ESRAM_DMA_LCPA_OFFSET)
./include/mach/db8500-regs.h:#define U8500_DMA_LCLA_BASE U8500_ESRAM_BANK4

I want to use genalloc to do dynamic allocations but I need to be able to
fine tune the allocation algorithm. I my case best-fit algorithm give
better results than first-fit, but it will not be true for every use case.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@stericsson.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:04:57 +09:00
Huang Ying 7f184275aa lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless
This version of the gen_pool memory allocator supports lockless
operation.

This makes it safe to use in NMI handlers and other special
unblockable contexts that could otherwise deadlock on locks.  This is
implemented by using atomic operations and retries on any conflicts.
The disadvantage is that there may be livelocks in extreme cases.  For
better scalability, one gen_pool allocator can be used for each CPU.

The lockless operation only works if there is enough memory available.
If new memory is added to the pool a lock has to be still taken.  So
any user relying on locklessness has to ensure that sufficient memory
is preallocated.

The basic atomic operation of this allocator is cmpxchg on long.  On
architectures that don't have NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation, the
allocator can NOT be used in NMI handler.  So code uses the allocator
in NMI handler should depend on CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-08-03 11:15:57 -04:00
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 3c8f370ded lib/genalloc.c: add support for specifying the physical address
So we can specify the virtual address as the base of the pool chunk and
then get physical addresses for hardware IP.

For example on at91 we will use this on spi, uart or macb

Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Patrice VILCHEZ <patrice.vilchez@atmel.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:54 -07:00
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 6aae6e0304 include/linux/genalloc.h: add multiple-inclusion guards
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Patrice VILCHEZ <patrice.vilchez@atmel.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:53 -07:00
Steve Wise 322acc96d4 [PATCH] LIB: add gen_pool_destroy()
Modules using the genpool allocator need to be able to destroy the data
structure when unloading.

Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:12 -07:00
Dean Nelson 929f97276b [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory
Modify the gen_pool allocator (lib/genalloc.c) to utilize a bitmap scheme
instead of the buddy scheme.  The purpose of this change is to eliminate
the touching of the actual memory being allocated.

Since the change modifies the interface, a change to the uncached allocator
(arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c) is also required.

Both Andrey Volkov and Jes Sorenson have expressed a desire that the
gen_pool allocator not write to the memory being managed. See the
following:

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113518602713125&w=2
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113533568827916&w=2

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrey Volkov <avolkov@varma-el.com>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:49 -07:00
Jes Sorensen f14f75b811 [PATCH] ia64 uncached alloc
This patch contains the ia64 uncached page allocator and the generic
allocator (genalloc).  The uncached allocator was formerly part of the SN2
mspec driver but there are several other users of it so it has been split
off from the driver.

The generic allocator can be used by device driver to manage special memory
etc.  The generic allocator is based on the allocator from the sym53c8xx_2
driver.

Various users on ia64 needs uncached memory.  The SGI SN architecture requires
it for inter-partition communication between partitions within a large NUMA
cluster.  The specific user for this is the XPC code.  Another application is
large MPI style applications which use it for synchronization, on SN this can
be done using special 'fetchop' operations but it also benefits non SN
hardware which may use regular uncached memory for this purpose.  Performance
of doing this through uncached vs cached memory is pretty substantial.  This
is handled by the mspec driver which I will push out in a seperate patch.

Rather than creating a specific allocator for just uncached memory I came up
with genalloc which is a generic purpose allocator that can be used by device
drivers and other subsystems as they please.  For instance to handle onboard
device memory.  It was derived from the sym53c7xx_2 driver's allocator which
is also an example of a potential user (I am refraining from modifying sym2
right now as it seems to have been under fairly heavy development recently).

On ia64 memory has various properties within a granule, ie.  it isn't safe to
access memory as uncached within the same granule as currently has memory
accessed in cached mode.  The regular system therefore doesn't utilize memory
in the lower granules which is mixed in with device PAL code etc.  The
uncached driver walks the EFI memmap and pulls out the spill uncached pages
and sticks them into the uncached pool.  Only after these chunks have been
utilized, will it start converting regular cached memory into uncached memory.
Hence the reason for the EFI related code additions.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:18 -07:00