mm/hugetlb: add region_del() to delete a specific range of entries

fallocate hole punch will want to remove a specific range of pages.  The
existing region_truncate() routine deletes all region/reserve map
entries after a specified offset.  region_del() will provide this same
functionality if the end of region is specified as LONG_MAX.  Hence,
region_del() can replace region_truncate().

Unlike region_truncate(), region_del() can return an error in the rare
case where it can not allocate memory for a region descriptor.  This
ONLY happens in the case where an existing region must be split.
Current callers passing LONG_MAX as end of range will never experience
this error and do not need to deal with error handling.  Future callers
of region_del() (such as fallocate hole punch) will need to handle this
error.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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