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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/Kconfig
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/Kconfig10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
index dc2cec6127d..ebb9e51deb0 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ config EDD_OFF
kernel. Say N if you want EDD enabled by default. EDD can be dynamically set
using the kernel parameter 'edd={on|skipmbr|off}'.
+config FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
+ bool "Add firmware-provided memory map to sysfs" if EMBEDDED
+ default (X86_64 || X86_32)
+ help
+ Add the firmware-provided (unmodified) memory map to /sys/firmware/memmap.
+ That memory map is used for example by kexec to set up parameter area
+ for the next kernel, but can also be used for debugging purposes.
+
+ See also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap.
+
config EFI_VARS
tristate "EFI Variable Support via sysfs"
depends on EFI