Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935176Ab3DKUm2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:42:28 -0400 Received: from g1t0026.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.33]:48575 "EHLO g1t0026.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935101Ab3DKUmZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:42:25 -0400 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 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 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" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4 (3.6.4-3.fc18) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1276 Lines: 30 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/