uclinux2.6(bf561)中的bootmem分析(1)：猜测

 

   

  

在setup_arch(arch/blackfin/kernel/setup.c)函数中，与bootmem相关的代码有：

     int bootmap_size;

…

 

     /* setup memory defaults from the user config */

     physical_mem_end = 0;

     _ramend = CONFIG_MEM_SIZE * 1024 * 1024;

…

 

     if (physical_mem_end == 0)

         physical_mem_end = _ramend;

 

     /* by now the stack is part of the init task */

     memory_end = _ramend - DMA_UNCACHED_REGION;

 

     _ramstart = (unsigned long)__bss_stop;

     _rambase = (unsigned long)_stext;

#ifdef CONFIG_MPU

     /* Round up to multiple of 4MB. */

     memory_start = (_ramstart + 0x3fffff) & ~0x3fffff;

#else

     memory_start = PAGE_ALIGN(_ramstart);

#endif

…

 

     /*

      * give all the memory to the bootmap allocator, tell it to put the

      * boot mem_map at the start of memory

      */

     bootmap_size = init_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(0), memory_start >> PAGE_SHIFT, /* map goes here */

                        PAGE_OFFSET >> PAGE_SHIFT,

                        memory_end >> PAGE_SHIFT);

     /*

      * free the usable memory, we have to make sure we do not free

      * the bootmem bitmap so we then reserve it after freeing it :-)

      */

     free_bootmem(memory_start, memory_end - memory_start);

 

     reserve_bootmem(memory_start, bootmap_size);

此时，内存管理的初始化函数paging_init尚未调用，因此猜测bootmem的作用似乎是在内核启动完成前提供一种简单的内存管理策略。看看mm/bootmem.c的注释：

/*

 * linux/mm/bootmem.c

 *

 * Copyright (C) 1999 Ingo Molnar

 * Discontiguous memory support, Kanoj Sarcar, SGI, Nov 1999

 *

 * simple boot-time physical memory area allocator and

 * free memory collector. It's used to deal with reserved

 * system memory and memory holes as well.

 */