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memblock: add memblock_cap_memory_range()
authorAKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Mon, 3 Apr 2017 02:23:55 +0000 (11:23 +0900)
committerThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:24:12 +0000 (11:24 -0300)
commit922415a43740431009d1243e10d6a228a1fd0813
treefff63f6e17c94c164356bb5a9d6ebccbf1ce06c8
parentbd478231c9ec1506791ee47e43de8e21137fa400
memblock: add memblock_cap_memory_range()

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1694859
Add memblock_cap_memory_range() which will remove all the memblock regions
except the memory range specified in the arguments. In addition, rework is
done on memblock_mem_limit_remove_map() to re-implement it using
memblock_cap_memory_range().

This function, like memblock_mem_limit_remove_map(), will not remove
memblocks with MEMMAP_NOMAP attribute as they may be mapped and accessed
later as "device memory."
See the commit a571d4eb55d8 ("mm/memblock.c: add new infrastructure to
address the mem limit issue").

This function is used, in a succeeding patch in the series of arm64 kdump
suuport, to limit the range of usable memory, or System RAM, on crash dump
kernel.
(Please note that "mem=" parameter is of little use for this purpose.)

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
(cherry picked from commit c9ca9b4e2198a4dbeb83739460d4a7ff9ffed24f)
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
include/linux/memblock.h
mm/memblock.c