Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: Change __remove_pages() to callrelease_mem_region_adjustable()

[Toshi Kani]

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 <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by : Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks David!
-Toshi

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