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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:30:06 -0500
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To: Zhao Qiang-B45475 <qiang.zhao@...escale.com>
CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 3/5] CPM/QE: use genalloc to manage CPM/QE muram
On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 00:28 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote:
> On Wen, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:03 AM +0800, Wood Scott-B07421 wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:03 PM
> > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475
> > Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org;
> > lauraa@...eaurora.org; Xie Xiaobo-R63061; benh@...nel.crashing.org; Li
> > Yang-Leo-R58472; paulus@...ba.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 3/5] CPM/QE: use genalloc to manage CPM/QE muram
> >
> > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 21:20 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote:
> > > On Wen, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:19 AM +0800, Wood Scott-B07421 wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > > {
> > > > > > > - int ret;
> > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > + unsigned long start;
> > > > > > > unsigned long flags;
> > > > > > > + unsigned long size_alloc = size; struct muram_block *entry;
> > > > > > > + int end_bit; int order = muram_pool->min_alloc_order;
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > spin_lock_irqsave(&cpm_muram_lock, flags);
> > > > > > > - ret = rh_free(&cpm_muram_info, offset);
> > > > > > > + end_bit = (offset >> order) + ((size + (1UL << order) - 1)
> > > > > > > + >>
> > > > > > order);
> > > > > > > + if ((offset + size) > (end_bit << order))
> > > > > > > + size_alloc = size + (1UL << order);
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Why do you need to do all these calculations here?
> > > > >
> > > > > So do it in gen_pool_fixed_alloc?
> > > >
> > > > Could you explain why they're needed at all?
> > >
> > > Why it does the calculations?
> > > If the min block of gen_pool is 8 bytes, and I want to allocate a
> > > Region with offset=7, size=8bytes, I actually need block 0 and block
> > > 1, And the allocation will give me block 0.
> >
> > How can you have offset 7 if the minimum order is 2 bytes?
>
> Offset has no relationship with minimum order, it is not decided by minimum
> order.
All allocations begin and end on a multiple of the minimum order.
> I want to allocate a specific region with offset=7, then algo to calculate
> the block bit.
> And I just take it for example, it is not I really need to region offset=7.
Do you really need any fixed allocations that begin on an odd address?
> So, now minimum order is 2 bytes. If offset=7, size=4bytes needed, it
> actually allocate 6-12 to me.
Why 6-12 and not 6-10?
-Scott
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