Memory resources should be marked as busy.
If memory resources are not marked as busy they do not get released during
hotplug memory remove. This seems a bit counter intuitive but the core
kernel resource code checks for the IORESOURCE_BUSY flag before releasing
the resource.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nf...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
===================================================================
--- powerpc.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ static int add_system_ram_resources(void
res->name = "System RAM";
res->start = base;
res->end = base + size - 1;
- res->flags = IORESOURCE_MEM;
+ res->flags = IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
WARN_ON(request_resource(&iomem_resource, res) < 0);
}
}
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