+struct memory_block *find_memory_block_hinted(struct mem_section *section,
+ struct memory_block *hint)
+{
+ struct kobject *kobj;
+ struct sys_device *sysdev;
+ struct memory_block *mem;
+ char name[sizeof(MEMORY_CLASS_NAME) + 9 + 1];
+
+ kobj = hint ? &hint->sysdev.kobj : NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * This only works because we know that section == sysdev->id
+ * slightly redundant with sysdev_register()
+ */
+ sprintf(&name[0], "%s%d", MEMORY_CLASS_NAME, __section_nr(section));
+
+ kobj = kset_find_obj_hinted(&memory_sysdev_class.kset, name, kobj);
+ if (!kobj)
+ return NULL;
+
+ sysdev = container_of(kobj, struct sys_device, kobj);
+ mem = container_of(sysdev, struct memory_block, sysdev);
+
+ return mem;
+}
+
+/*
+ * For now, we have a linear search to go find the appropriate
+ * memory_block corresponding to a particular phys_index. If
+ * this gets to be a real problem, we can always use a radix
+ * tree or something here.
+ *
+ * This could be made generic for all sysdev classes.
+ */
+struct memory_block *find_memory_block(struct mem_section *section)
+{
+ return find_memory_block_hinted(section, NULL);
+}
+