PCI: clean up resource alignment management
Done per Linus' request and suggestions. Linus has explained that
better than I'll be able to explain:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:12:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Actually, before we go any further, there might be a less intrusive
> alternative: add just a couple of flags to the resource flags field (we
> still have something like 8 unused bits on 32-bit), and use those to
> implement a generic "resource_alignment()" routine.
>
> Two flags would do it:
>
> - IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN: size indicates alignment (regular PCI device
> resources)
>
> - IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN: start field is alignment (PCI bus resources
> during probing)
>
> and then the case of both flags zero (or both bits set) would actually be
> "invalid", and we would also clear the IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN flag when we
> actually allocate the resource (so that we don't use the "start" field as
> alignment incorrectly when it no longer indicates alignment).
>
> That wouldn't be totally generic, but it would have the nice property of
> automatically at least add sanity checking for that whole "res->start has
> the odd meaning of 'alignment' during probing" and remove the need for a
> new field, and it would allow us to have a generic "resource_alignment()"
> routine that just gets a resource pointer.
Besides, I removed IORESOURCE_BUS_HAS_VGA flag which was unused for ages.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 82aea81..cee12cc 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -486,6 +486,24 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(adjust_resource);
+/**
+ * resource_alignment - calculate resource's alignment
+ * @res: resource pointer
+ *
+ * Returns alignment on success, 0 (invalid alignment) on failure.
+ */
+resource_size_t resource_alignment(struct resource *res)
+{
+ switch (res->flags & (IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN | IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN)) {
+ case IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN:
+ return res->end - res->start + 1;
+ case IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN:
+ return res->start;
+ default:
+ return 0;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* This is compatibility stuff for IO resources.
*
