RE: Reserving a fixed physical address page of RAM.

["Jon Ringle" <JRingle@vertical.com>]

Jon Ringle wrote:
> Fawad Lateef wrote:
> > On 11/30/06, Jon Ringle <JRingle@vertical.com> wrote:
> > > Do you think that the following would work to properly 
> reserve the 
> > > memory. If it does, then I think I can just do a 
> ioremap(0x0ffff000,
> > > 0x1000) to obtain a virtual address. (Ofcourse I would 
> actually use 
> > > symbolic names rather than the hardcoded addesses shown here).
> > >
> > > Index: linux/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> > > 
> ===================================================================
> > > --- linux.orig/arch/arm/mm/init.c       2006-11-30 
> > 11:03:00.000000000
> > > -0500
> > > +++ linux/arch/arm/mm/init.c    2006-11-30 
> 11:09:09.000000000 -0500
> > > @@ -429,6 +429,10 @@
> > >         unsigned long addr;
> > >         void *vectors;
> > >
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MACH_VERTICAL_RSC4
> > > +       reserve_bootmem (0x0ffff000, 0x1000); #endif
> > > +
> > >         /*
> > >          * Allocate the vector page early.
> > >          */
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > I think you can do like this but can't say accurately 
> because I havn't 
> > worked on arm architecture and also you havn't mentioned your 
> > kernel-version or function (in file
> > arch/arm/mm/init.c) which you are going to do call reserve_bootmem !
> 
> Kernel version is 2.6.16.29 and the reserve_bootmem() call 
> above is at the top of the function devicemaps_init().

Is there some way I can verify that the above works? I've tried the
following to try to get info on the reservation:
	# cat /proc/iomem
	# cat /proc/meminfo
	# cat /proc/slabinfo
	# echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger

The only one that hints that this might have worked is the `echo m >
/proc/sysrq-trigger` in that I see the reserved pages count one larger
than using a kernel without this patch. Does this mean that the page I
reserved won't get used by Linux for any purpose?

Jon