Introduce flags for reserve_bootmem()
This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions between crashkernel area and already used memory. This patch: Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE. If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already has been reserved in the past. This is to avoid conflicts. Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition inside reserve_bootmem_core(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build] Signed-off-by:Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- arch/alpha/kernel/core_irongate.c 2 additions, 1 deletionarch/alpha/kernel/core_irongate.c
- arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c 3 additions, 2 deletionsarch/alpha/kernel/setup.c
- arch/alpha/mm/numa.c 3 additions, 2 deletionsarch/alpha/mm/numa.c
- arch/arm/mm/init.c 2 additions, 2 deletionsarch/arm/mm/init.c
- arch/arm/mm/mmu.c 11 additions, 6 deletionsarch/arm/mm/mmu.c
- arch/arm/mm/nommu.c 6 additions, 3 deletionsarch/arm/mm/nommu.c
- arch/arm/plat-omap/fb.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/arm/plat-omap/fb.c
- arch/avr32/kernel/setup.c 4 additions, 2 deletionsarch/avr32/kernel/setup.c
- arch/blackfin/kernel/setup.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/blackfin/kernel/setup.c
- arch/cris/kernel/setup.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/cris/kernel/setup.c
- arch/frv/kernel/setup.c 10 additions, 6 deletionsarch/frv/kernel/setup.c
- arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/h8300/kernel/setup.c
- arch/ia64/mm/contig.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/ia64/mm/contig.c
- arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c 2 additions, 2 deletionsarch/ia64/mm/discontig.c
- arch/m32r/kernel/setup.c 7 additions, 4 deletionsarch/m32r/kernel/setup.c
- arch/m32r/mm/discontig.c 3 additions, 2 deletionsarch/m32r/mm/discontig.c
- arch/m68k/atari/stram.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/m68k/atari/stram.c
- arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c 2 additions, 1 deletionarch/m68k/kernel/setup.c
- arch/m68knommu/kernel/setup.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/m68knommu/kernel/setup.c
- arch/mips/kernel/setup.c 2 additions, 2 deletionsarch/mips/kernel/setup.c
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