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It's a very simple >>>> function after all, and likely you won't end up having many of these? >>>> >>> >>> Thanks David, I will do it as you suggested and see what comes out of it. >>> >>> I have one side question you might know much better to answer: >>> As we have a start and a size for each region, this start is a virtual >>> address. The firmware/coprocessor that reads the memory and dumps it, >>> requires physical addresses. >> >> Right. I was asking myself the same question while reviewing: should we >> directly export physical ranges here instead of virtual ones. I guess >> virtual ones is ok. > > In patch 22/29, some areas are registered using > memblock_phys_alloc_try_nid() which allocates physical. > In this case , phys_to_virt() didn't work for me, it was returning a > wrong address. I used __va() and this worked. So there is a difference > between them. memblock_alloc_internal() calls memblock_alloc_range_nid() to then perform a phys_to_virt(). memblock_phys_alloc_try_nid() calls memblock_alloc_range_nid() without the phys_to_virt(). So it's rather surprising the a phys_to_virt() would not work in that case. Maybe for these cases where you export the area through a new helper, you can just export the physical addr + length instead. Then, it's also clear that this area is actually physically contiguous. > >> >> What do you suggest to use to retrieve that >>> address ? virt_to_phys might be problematic, __pa or __pa_symbol? or >>> better lm_alias ? >> >> All areas should either come from memblock or be global variables, right? > > I would like to be able to register from anywhere. For example someone > debugging their driver, to just register kmalloc'ed struct. > Other use case is to register dma coherent CMA areas. Then probably better to export physical addresses (that you need either way) directly from the helpers you have to add. > >> >> IIRC, virt_to_phys() should work for these. Did you run into any >> problems with them or why do you think virt_to_phys could be problematic? >> > > I am pondering about whether it would work in all cases, considering > it's source code comments that it shall not be used because it does not > work for any address. Yeah, it does for example not work for kernel stacks IIRC. -- Cheers David / dhildenb