On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Toshi Kani wrote: > Added release_mem_region_adjustable(), which releases a requested > region from a currently busy memory resource. This interface > adjusts the matched memory resource accordingly even if the > requested region does not match exactly but still fits into. > > This new interface is intended for memory hot-delete. During > bootup, memory resources are inserted from the boot descriptor > table, such as EFI Memory Table and e820. Each memory resource > entry usually covers the whole contigous memory range. Memory > hot-delete request, on the other hand, may target to a particular > range of memory resource, and its size can be much smaller than > the whole contiguous memory. Since the existing release interfaces > like __release_region() require a requested region to be exactly > matched to a resource entry, they do not allow a partial resource > to be released. > > There is no change to the existing interfaces since their restriction > is valid for I/O resources. > > Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.k...@hp.com> > Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasu...@jp.fujitsu.com>
Should this emit a warning for attempting to free a non-existant region like __release_region() does? I think it would be better to base this off my patch and surround it with #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE as suggested by Andrew. There shouldn't be any conflicts. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
