From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx142.postini.com [74.125.245.142]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDBCC6B0005 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1365712204.32127.118.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> 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 In-Reply-To: References: <1365614221-685-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1365614221-685-4-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, tmac@hp.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, wency@cn.fujitsu.com, tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com, jiang.liu@huawei.com 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 > > Reviewed-by : Yasuaki Ishimatsu > > Acked-by: David Rientjes Thanks David! -Toshi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org