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resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down

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Allocate space from the top of a region first, then work downward,
if an architecture desires this.

When we allocate space from a resource, we look for gaps between children
of the resource.  Previously, we always looked at gaps from the bottom up.
For example, given this:

    [mem 0xbff00000-0xf7ffffff] PCI Bus 0000:00
      [mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap -- available
      [mem 0xc0000000-0xdfffffff] PCI Bus 0000:02
      [mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap -- available

we attempted to allocate from the [mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap first,
then the [mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap.

With this patch an architecture can choose to allocate from the top gap
[mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] first.

We can't do this across the board because iomem_resource.end is initialized
to 0xffffffff_ffffffff on 64-bit architectures, and most machines can't
address the entire 64-bit physical address space.  Therefore, we only
allocate top-down if the arch requests it by clearing
"resource_alloc_from_bottom".

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Bjorn Helgaas 2010-10-26 15:41:33 -06:00 • committed by Jesse Barnes
parent a1862e3107
commit e7f8567db9
3 changed files with 100 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ struct resource_list {
/* PC/ISA/whatever - the normal PC address spaces: IO and memory */
extern struct resource ioport_resource;
extern struct resource iomem_resource;
extern int resource_alloc_from_bottom;
extern struct resource *request_resource_conflict(struct resource *root, struct resource *new);
extern int request_resource(struct resource *root, struct resource *new);