[PATCH v2 0/3] Support memory hot-delete to boot memory

[Toshi Kani]

Memory hot-delete to a memory range present at boot causes an
error message in __release_region(), such as:

 Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000070000000-0000000077ffffff>

Hot-delete operation still continues since __release_region() is 
a void function, but the target memory range is not freed from
iomem_resource as the result.  This also leads a failure in a 
subsequent hot-add operation to the same memory range since the
address range is still in-use in iomem_resource.

This problem happens because the granularity of memory resource ranges
may be different between boot and hot-delete.  During bootup,
iomem_resource is set up from the boot descriptor table, such as EFI
Memory Table and e820.  Each resource entry usually covers the whole
contiguous memory range.  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.

This patchset introduces release_mem_region_adjustable() for memory
hot-delete operations, which allows releasing a partial memory range
and adjusts remaining resource accordingly.  This patchset makes no
changes to the existing interfaces since their restriction is still
valid for I/O resources.

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v2: Updated release_mem_region_adjustable() per code reviews from
Yasuaki Ishimatsu, Ram Pai and Gu Zheng. 

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Toshi Kani (3):
 resource: Add __adjust_resource() for internal use
 resource: Add release_mem_region_adjustable()
 mm: Change __remove_pages() to call release_mem_region_adjustable()

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 include/linux/ioport.h |   2 +
 kernel/resource.c      | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 mm/memory_hotplug.c    |  11 ++++-
 3 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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