memblock子系统

1 memblock数据结构

memblock --> memblock_type --> memblock_region

+---------------------------+   +---------------------------+
|         memblock          |   |                           |
|  _______________________  |   |                           |
| |        memory         | |   |       Array of the        |
| |      memblock_type    |-|-->|      memblock_region      |
| |_______________________| |   |                           |
|                           |   +---------------------------+
|  _______________________  |   +---------------------------+
| |       reserved        | |   |                           |
| |      memblock_type    |-|-->|       Array of the        |
| |_______________________| |   |      memblock_region      |
|                           |   |                           |
+---------------------------+   +---------------------------+

/* Definition of memblock flags. */
enum {
	MEMBLOCK_NONE		= 0x0,	/* No special request */
	MEMBLOCK_HOTPLUG	= 0x1,	/* hotpluggable region */
	MEMBLOCK_MIRROR		= 0x2,	/* mirrored region */
	MEMBLOCK_NOMAP		= 0x4,	/* don't add to kernel direct mapping */
};

struct memblock_region {
	phys_addr_t base;					//region的开始物理地址
	phys_addr_t size;					//region的大小
	unsigned long flags;				//region的标志，上面枚举定义
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
	int nid;
#endif
};

struct memblock_type {
	unsigned long cnt;	/* number of regions */					//该类型内存的regions数量
	unsigned long max;	/* size of the allocated array */		//当前集合中记录内存区域最大大小
	phys_addr_t total_size;	/* size of all regions */			//regions总大小
	struct memblock_region *regions;							//指向region数组
	char *name;
};

struct memblock {
	bool bottom_up;  /* is bottom up direction? */		//表明分配器的分配方式，true表示从低地址向高地址
	phys_addr_t current_limit;			//内存块大小的限制
	struct memblock_type memory;		//可用内存类型
	struct memblock_type reserved;		//预留内存类型
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
	struct memblock_type physmem;
#endif
};

2 memblock结构初始化：

#define INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS			128
#define INIT_PHYSMEM_REGIONS			4

#ifndef INIT_MEMBLOCK_RESERVED_REGIONS
# define INIT_MEMBLOCK_RESERVED_REGIONS		INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS
#endif

struct memblock memblock __initdata_memblock = {
	.memory.regions		= memblock_memory_init_regions,
	.memory.cnt		= 1,	/* empty dummy entry */
	.memory.max		= INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS,
	.memory.name		= "memory",

	.reserved.regions	= memblock_reserved_init_regions,
	.reserved.cnt		= 1,	/* empty dummy entry */
	.reserved.max		= INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS,
	.reserved.name		= "reserved",

#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
	.physmem.regions	= memblock_physmem_init_regions,
	.physmem.cnt		= 1,	/* empty dummy entry */
	.physmem.max		= INIT_PHYSMEM_REGIONS,
	.physmem.name		= "physmem",
#endif

	.bottom_up		= false,
	.current_limit		= MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE,
}

3 memblock分配释放API

其中对不同类型memblock的分配释放主要有如下：

memblock.memory分配释放API：memblock_add()和memblock_remove()；

memblock.reserved分配释放API：memblock_reserve()和memblock_free()。

4 memblock debug

  在内核启动bootargs，可以加入"memblock=debug"，启动过程会打开memblock的log，通过打印可以看出memblock的预留、分配等操作。
  在内核编译时使能了内核debug功能后，还可以通过以下操作查看memblock信息。

mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug

cat /sys/kernel/debug/memblock/memory 
cat /sys/kernel/debug/memblock/reserved