grub2/SOURCES/0296-mm-Document-grub_mm_init_region.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:22:49 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Document grub_mm_init_region()

The grub_mm_init_region() does some things that seem magical, especially
around region merging. Make it a bit clearer.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
(cherry picked from commit 246d69b7ea619fc1e77dcc5960e37aea45a9808c)
---
 grub-core/kern/mm.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/grub-core/kern/mm.c b/grub-core/kern/mm.c
index 0351171cf9..1cbf98c7ab 100644
--- a/grub-core/kern/mm.c
+++ b/grub-core/kern/mm.c
@@ -128,23 +128,52 @@ grub_mm_init_region (void *addr, grub_size_t size)
   if (((grub_addr_t) addr + 0x1000) > ~(grub_addr_t) size)
     size = ((grub_addr_t) -0x1000) - (grub_addr_t) addr;
 
+  /* Attempt to merge this region with every existing region */
   for (p = &grub_mm_base, q = *p; q; p = &(q->next), q = *p)
+    /*
+     * Is the new region immediately below an existing region? That
+     * is, is the address of the memory we're adding now (addr) + size
+     * of the memory we're adding (size) + the bytes we couldn't use
+     * at the start of the region we're considering (q->pre_size)
+     * equal to the address of q? In other words, does the memory
+     * looks like this?
+     *
+     * addr                          q
+     *   |----size-----|-q->pre_size-|<q region>|
+     */
     if ((grub_uint8_t *) addr + size + q->pre_size == (grub_uint8_t *) q)
       {
+	/*
+	 * Yes, we can merge the memory starting at addr into the
+	 * existing region from below. Align up addr to GRUB_MM_ALIGN
+	 * so that our new region has proper alignment.
+	 */
 	r = (grub_mm_region_t) ALIGN_UP ((grub_addr_t) addr, GRUB_MM_ALIGN);
+	/* Copy the region data across */
 	*r = *q;
+	/* Consider all the new size as pre-size */
 	r->pre_size += size;
-	
+
+	/*
+	 * If we have enough pre-size to create a block, create a
+	 * block with it. Mark it as allocated and pass it to
+	 * grub_free (), which will sort out getting it into the free
+	 * list.
+	 */
 	if (r->pre_size >> GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2)
 	  {
 	    h = (grub_mm_header_t) (r + 1);
+	    /* block size is pre-size converted to cells */
 	    h->size = (r->pre_size >> GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2);
 	    h->magic = GRUB_MM_ALLOC_MAGIC;
+	    /* region size grows by block size converted back to bytes */
 	    r->size += h->size << GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2;
+	    /* adjust pre_size to be accurate */
 	    r->pre_size &= (GRUB_MM_ALIGN - 1);
 	    *p = r;
 	    grub_free (h + 1);
 	  }
+	/* Replace the old region with the new region */
 	*p = r;
 	return;
       }