Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: Change __remove_pages() to call release_mem_region_adjustable() | From | Toshi Kani <> | Date | Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:30:04 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 15:13 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Toshi Kani wrote: > > > Changed __remove_pages() to call release_mem_region_adjustable(). > > This allows a requested memory range to be released from > > the iomem_resource table even if it does not match exactly to > > an resource entry but still fits into. The resource entries > > initialized at bootup usually cover the whole contiguous > > memory ranges and may not necessarily match with the size of > > memory hot-delete requests. > > > > If release_mem_region_adjustable() failed, __remove_pages() emits > > a warning message and continues to proceed as it was the case > > with release_mem_region(). release_mem_region(), which is defined > > to __release_region(), emits a warning message and returns no error > > since a void function. > > > > Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> > > Reviewed-by : Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Thanks David! -Toshi
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