kernel, resource: check for IORESOURCE_SYSRAM in release_mem_region_adjustable

This is a preparation for the next patch.

Currently, we only call release_mem_region_adjustable() in __remove_pages
if the zone is not ZONE_DEVICE, because resources that belong to HMM/devm
are being released by themselves with devm_release_mem_region.

Since we do not want to touch any zone/page stuff during the removing of
the memory (but during the offlining), we do not want to check for the
zone here.  So we need another way to tell release_mem_region_adjustable()
to not realease the resource in case it belongs to HMM/devm.

HMM/devm acquires/releases a resource through
devm_request_mem_region/devm_release_mem_region.

These resources have the flag IORESOURCE_MEM, while resources acquired by
hot-add memory path (register_memory_resource()) contain
IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM.

So, we can check for this flag in release_mem_region_adjustable, and if
the resource does not contain such flag, we know that we are dealing with
a HMM/devm resource, so we can back off.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index b0fbf685c77a..915c02e8e5dd 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -1256,6 +1256,21 @@ int release_mem_region_adjustable(struct resource *parent,
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * All memory regions added from memory-hotplug path have the
+		 * flag IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM. If the resource does not have
+		 * this flag, we know that we are dealing with a resource coming
+		 * from HMM/devm. HMM/devm use another mechanism to add/release
+		 * a resource. This goes via devm_request_mem_region and
+		 * devm_release_mem_region.
+		 * HMM/devm take care to release their resources when they want,
+		 * so if we are dealing with them, let us just back off here.
+		 */
+		if (!(res->flags & IORESOURCE_SYSRAM)) {
+			ret = 0;
+			break;
+		}
+
 		if (!(res->flags & IORESOURCE_MEM))
 			break;