3 files changed, 100 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8dd7248508a9..fe50cbd315b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2156,6 +2156,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
         reset_devices   [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
                         during initialization.
 
+        resource_alloc_from_bottom
+                        Allocate new resources from the beginning of available
+                        space, not the end.  If you need to use this, please
+                        report a bug.
+
         resume=         [SWSUSP]
                         Specify the partition device for software suspend
 
diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
index b22790268b64..d377ea815d45 100644
--- a/include/linux/ioport.h
+++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ struct resource_list {
 /* PC/ISA/whatever - the normal PC address spaces: IO and memory */
 extern struct resource ioport_resource;
 extern struct resource iomem_resource;
+extern int resource_alloc_from_bottom;
 
 extern struct resource *request_resource_conflict(struct resource *root, struct resource *new);
 extern int request_resource(struct resource *root, struct resource *new);
diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index e15b922d4ba4..716b6804077e 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -40,6 +40,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(iomem_resource);
 
 static DEFINE_RWLOCK(resource_lock);
 
+/*
+ * By default, we allocate free space bottom-up.  The architecture can request
+ * top-down by clearing this flag.  The user can override the architecture's
+ * choice with the "resource_alloc_from_bottom" kernel boot option, but that
+ * should only be a debugging tool.
+ */
+int resource_alloc_from_bottom = 1;
+
+static __init int setup_alloc_from_bottom(char *s)
+{
+        printk(KERN_INFO
+               "resource: allocating from bottom-up; please report a bug\n");
+        resource_alloc_from_bottom = 1;
+        return 0;
+}
+early_param("resource_alloc_from_bottom", setup_alloc_from_bottom);
+
 static void *r_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *pos)
 {
         struct resource *p = v;
@@ -380,7 +397,74 @@ static bool resource_contains(struct resource *res1, struct resource *res2)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Find the resource before "child" in the sibling list of "root" children.
+ */
+static struct resource *find_sibling_prev(struct resource *root, struct resource *child)
+{
+        struct resource *this;
+
+        for (this = root->child; this; this = this->sibling)
+                if (this->sibling == child)
+                        return this;
+
+        return NULL;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Find empty slot in the resource tree given range and alignment.
+ * This version allocates from the end of the root resource first.
+ */
+static int find_resource_from_top(struct resource *root, struct resource *new,
+                                  resource_size_t size, resource_size_t min,
+                                  resource_size_t max, resource_size_t align,
+                                  resource_size_t (*alignf)(void *,
+                                                   const struct resource *,
+                                                   resource_size_t,
+                                                   resource_size_t),
+                                  void *alignf_data)
+{
+        struct resource *this;
+        struct resource tmp, avail, alloc;
+
+        tmp.start = root->end;
+        tmp.end = root->end;
+
+        this = find_sibling_prev(root, NULL);
+        for (;;) {
+                if (this) {
+                        if (this->end < root->end)
+                                tmp.start = this->end + 1;
+                } else
+                        tmp.start = root->start;
+
+                resource_clip(&tmp, min, max);
+
+                /* Check for overflow after ALIGN() */
+                avail = *new;
+                avail.start = ALIGN(tmp.start, align);
+                avail.end = tmp.end;
+                if (avail.start >= tmp.start) {
+                        alloc.start = alignf(alignf_data, &avail, size, align);
+                        alloc.end = alloc.start + size - 1;
+                        if (resource_contains(&avail, &alloc)) {
+                                new->start = alloc.start;
+                                new->end = alloc.end;
+                                return 0;
+                        }
+                }
+
+                if (!this || this->start == root->start)
+                        break;
+
+                tmp.end = this->start - 1;
+                this = find_sibling_prev(root, this);
+        }
+        return -EBUSY;
+}
+
+/*
  * Find empty slot in the resource tree given range and alignment.
+ * This version allocates from the beginning of the root resource first.
  */
 static int find_resource(struct resource *root, struct resource *new,
                          resource_size_t size, resource_size_t min,
@@ -396,14 +480,15 @@ static int find_resource(struct resource *root, struct resource *new,
 
         tmp.start = root->start;
         /*
-         * Skip past an allocated resource that starts at 0, since the assignment
-         * of this->start - 1 to tmp->end below would cause an underflow.
+         * Skip past an allocated resource that starts at 0, since the
+         * assignment of this->start - 1 to tmp->end below would cause an
+         * underflow.
          */
         if (this && this->start == 0) {
                 tmp.start = this->end + 1;
                 this = this->sibling;
         }
-        for(;;) {
+        for (;;) {
                 if (this)
                         tmp.end = this->start - 1;
                 else
@@ -424,8 +509,10 @@ static int find_resource(struct resource *root, struct resource *new,
                                 return 0;
                         }
                 }
+
                 if (!this)
                         break;
+
                 tmp.start = this->end + 1;
                 this = this->sibling;
         }
@@ -458,7 +545,10 @@ int allocate_resource(struct resource *root, struct resource *new,
                 alignf = simple_align_resource;
 
         write_lock(&resource_lock);
-        err = find_resource(root, new, size, min, max, align, alignf, alignf_data);
+        if (resource_alloc_from_bottom)
+                err = find_resource(root, new, size, min, max, align, alignf, alignf_data);
+        else
+                err = find_resource_from_top(root, new, size, min, max, align, alignf, alignf_data);
         if (err >= 0 && __request_resource(root, new))
                 err = -EBUSY;
         write_unlock(&resource_lock);