memblock: add memblock_cap_memory_range()
authorAKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Mon, 3 Apr 2017 02:23:55 +0000 (11:23 +0900)
committerAKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Mon, 19 Jun 2017 06:09:01 +0000 (15:09 +0900)
commit8512530e7a4b30bd2a1cc9d0a5e9461afcb3062e
treef1cd59fef49d37630f5dbe8f170da0d794751c77
parentfc7b7e99170db9bc26921311429d7058d249781c
memblock: add memblock_cap_memory_range()

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>
include/linux/memblock.h
mm/memblock.c