[PATCH] read /proc/mtrr rather than use ioctl() interface

Alex Hung alex.hung at canonical.com
Fri Feb 10 08:10:50 UTC 2012


On 02/10/2012 06:29 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King<colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> The /proc/mtrr ioctl() MTRRIOC_GET_ENTRY returns zero'd entries for
> memory bases>  4GB which is wrong.  However reading /proc/mtrr
> provides the correct entries for>4GB but we now have to manually
> parse the output, which is a pain.
>
> This patch removes the use of the ioctl() interface and parses the
> /proc/mtrr output to get the all the MTRR entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King<colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>   src/bios/mtrr/mtrr.c |  110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>   1 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/bios/mtrr/mtrr.c b/src/bios/mtrr/mtrr.c
> index f94a465..1f2ba78 100644
> --- a/src/bios/mtrr/mtrr.c
> +++ b/src/bios/mtrr/mtrr.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
>   #include<sys/ioctl.h>
>   #include<fcntl.h>
>   #include<unistd.h>
> +#include<ctype.h>
>   #include<asm/mtrr.h>
>
>   static fwts_list *klog;
> @@ -80,59 +81,78 @@ static char *cache_to_string(int type)
>
>   static int get_mtrrs(void)
>   {
> -	struct mtrr_gentry gentry;
>   	struct mtrr_entry *entry;
> -	int fd;
> +	FILE *fp;
>   	char line[4096];
>
> -	memset(line, 0, 4096);
> -
>   	if ((mtrr_list = fwts_list_new()) == NULL)
>   		return FWTS_ERROR;
>
> -	if ((fd = open("/proc/mtrr", O_RDONLY, 0))<  0)
> +	if ((fp = fopen("/proc/mtrr", "r")) == NULL)
>   		return FWTS_ERROR;
>
> -	memset(&gentry, 0, sizeof(gentry));
> -
> -	for (gentry.regnum = 0;
> -		ioctl (fd, MTRRIOC_GET_ENTRY,&gentry) == 0;
> -         	++gentry.regnum) {
> -		if ((entry = calloc(1, sizeof(struct mtrr_entry))) != NULL) {
> -			entry->reg = gentry.regnum;
> -			if (gentry.size>  0) {
> -				entry->start = gentry.base;
> -				entry->size  = gentry.size;
> -				entry->end   = gentry.base + gentry.size;
> -				switch (gentry.type) {
> -				case 0:  /* uncachable */
> -					entry->type = UNCACHED;
> -					break;
> -				case 1: /* write combining */
> -					entry->type = WRITE_COMBINING;
> -					break;
> -				case 4: /* write through */
> -					entry->type = WRITE_THROUGH;
> -					break;
> -				case 5: /* write protect */
> -					entry->type = WRITE_PROTECT;
> -					break;
> -				case 6: /* write combining */
> -					entry->type = WRITE_BACK;
> -					break;
> -				default: /* unknown */
> -					entry->type = UNKNOWN;
> -					break;
> -				}
> -			}
> -			else {
> -				entry->type = DISABLED;
> -			}
> +	while (!feof(fp)) {
> +		char *ptr1, *ptr2;
>
> -			fwts_list_append(mtrr_list, entry);
> +		if (fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp) == NULL)
> +			break;
> +
> +		if ((entry = calloc(1, sizeof(struct mtrr_entry))) == NULL) {
> +			fwts_list_free(mtrr_list, free);
> +			fclose(fp);
> +			return FWTS_ERROR;
>   		}
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Put all text to lower case since the output
> +		 * from /proc/mtrr is variable upper/lower case
> +		 * across kernel versions so forcing to lower
> +		 * saves comparing for upper/lower case variants.
> +		 */
> +		for (ptr1 = line; *ptr1; ptr1++)
> +			*ptr1 = tolower(*ptr1);
> +
> +		/* Parse the following:
> +		 *   reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back
> +		 */
> +
> +		/* Get register, in decimal  */
> +		if (strncmp(line, "reg", 3))
> +			continue;
> +		entry->reg = strtoul(line + 3, NULL, 10);
> +
> +		/* Get base, in hex */
> +		if ((ptr1 = strstr(line, "base=0x")) == NULL)
> +			continue;
> +		entry->start = strtoull(ptr1 + 5, NULL, 16);
> +
> +		/* Get size, in decimal */
> +		if ((ptr1 = strstr(line, "size=")) == NULL)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		entry->size = strtoull(ptr1 + 5,&ptr2, 10);
> +		if (ptr2&&  (*ptr2 == 'm'))
> +			entry->size *= 1024 * 1024;
> +		if (ptr2&&  (*ptr2 == 'k'))
> +			entry->size *= 1024;
> +
> +		entry->end = entry->start + entry->size;
> +
> +		if (strstr(line, "write-back"))
> +			entry->type = WRITE_BACK;
> +		else if (strstr(line, "uncachable"))
> +			entry->type = UNCACHED;
> +		else if (strstr(line, "write-through"))
> +			entry->type = WRITE_THROUGH;
> +		else if (strstr(line, "write-combining"))
> +			entry->type = WRITE_COMBINING;
> +		else if (strstr(line, "write-protect"))
> +			entry->type = WRITE_PROTECT;
> +		else entry->type = UNKNOWN;
> +
> +		fwts_list_append(mtrr_list, entry);
>   	}
> -	close(fd);
> +	fclose(fp);
>
>   	return FWTS_OK;
>   }
> @@ -481,7 +501,7 @@ static void do_mtrr_resource(fwts_framework *fw)
>   			fwts_log_info_verbatum(fw, "Reg %hhu: disabled\n", entry->reg);
>   		else
>   			fwts_log_info_verbatum(fw,
> -				"Reg %hhu: 0x%08llx - 0x%08llx (%6lld %cB)  %s \n",
> +				"Reg %hhu: 0x%16.16llx - 0x%16.16llx (%6lld %cB)  %s \n",
>   				entry->reg,
>   				(unsigned long long int)entry->start,
>   				(unsigned long long int)entry->end,
> @@ -496,8 +516,10 @@ static int mtrr_init(fwts_framework *fw)
>   	if (fwts_check_executable(fw, fw->lspci, "lspci"))
>   		return FWTS_ERROR;
>
> -	if (get_mtrrs())
> +	if (get_mtrrs() != FWTS_OK) {
>   		fwts_log_error(fw, "Failed to read /proc/mtrr.");
> +		return FWTS_ERROR;
> +	}
>
>   	if (access("/proc/mtrr", R_OK))
>   		return FWTS_ERROR;
The patch fixes the zero's > 4GB on my machine

Acked by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>




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