Kumar Gala wrote:
On Mar 27, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
ppc kernel maintains information about logical memory blocks in
lmb.memory structure at the boot time. Its not updated for
hotplug memory add/remove. hotplug memory notifier for memory
add/remove now updates lmb.memory.
This information is useful for eHEA driver to find out the memory
layout and holes.
NOTE: No special locking is needed for lmb_add() and lmb_remove().
Calls to these are serialized by caller. (pSeries_reconfig_chain).
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c | 43 +++++++++++++++
include/linux/lmb.h | 3 -
lib/lmb.c | 66
++++++++++++++++++++----
3 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
How is lmb_remove different than lmb_alloc?
- k
lmb_remove() can be used to punch a hole in to the existing memory block.
lmb_alloc() tries to allocate for a given alignment, I don't think it can
adjust the current entries. Isn't it ?
Thanks,
Badari
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