lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2013]   [Apr]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: Change __remove_pages() to call release_mem_region_adjustable()
From
Date
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



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2013-04-12 03:21    [W:0.890 / U:0.072 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site