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[1/2] Mark memory resources as busy

Message ID 52050B14.4030304@linux.vnet.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Nathan Fontenot Aug. 9, 2013, 3:30 p.m. UTC 
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 <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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 arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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Index: powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
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--- 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);
 		}
 	}