Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] xen/arm: Parse xen,shared-mem when host phys address is not provided

[Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Luca,

On 15/05/2024 16:26, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> 
> 
> Handle the parsing of the 'xen,shared-mem' property when the host physical
> address is not provided, this commit is introducing the logic to parse it,
> but the functionality is still not implemented and will be part of future
> commits.
> 
> Rework the logic inside process_shm_node to check the shm_id before doing
> the other checks, because it ease the logic itself, add more comment on
> the logic.
> Now when the host physical address is not provided, the value
> INVALID_PADDR is chosen to signal this condition and it is stored as
> start of the bank, due to that change also early_print_info_shmem and
> init_sharedmem_pages are changed, to don't handle banks with start equal
s/don't/not/

> to INVALID_PADDR.
> 
> Another change is done inside meminfo_overlap_check, to skip banks that
> are starting with the start address INVALID_PADDR, that function is used
> to check banks from reserved memory, shared memory and ACPI and since
> the comment above the function states that wrapping around is not handled,
> it's unlikely for these bank to have the start address as INVALID_PADDR.
> Same change is done inside consider_modules, find_unallocated_memory and
> dt_unreserved_regions functions, in order to skip banks that starts with
> INVALID_PADDR from any computation.
> The changes above holds because of this consideration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>

Note:
This patch will need rebasing since it does not apply cleanly on staging.

~Michal