This function, with a combination of memblock_mark_nomap(), will be used
in a later kdump patch for arm64 when it temporarily isolates some range
of memory from the other memory blocks in order to create a specific
kernel mapping at boot time.
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
---
include/linux/memblock.h | 1 +
mm/memblock.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
index 5b759c9acf97..5f7825752b15 100644
--- a/include/linux/memblock.h
+++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ int memblock_mark_hotplug(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
int memblock_clear_hotplug(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
int memblock_mark_mirror(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
int memblock_mark_nomap(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
+int memblock_clear_nomap(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
ulong choose_memblock_flags(void);
/* Low level functions */
diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 7608bc305936..07c85ec2c035 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -814,6 +814,18 @@ int __init_memblock memblock_mark_nomap(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
}
/**
+ * memblock_clear_nomap - Clear flag MEMBLOCK_NOMAP for a specified region.
+ * @base: the base phys addr of the region
+ * @size: the size of the region
+ *
+ * Return 0 on success, -errno on failure.
+ */
+int __init_memblock memblock_clear_nomap(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
+{
+ return memblock_setclr_flag(base, size, 0, MEMBLOCK_NOMAP);
+}
+
+/**
* __next_reserved_mem_region - next function for for_each_reserved_region()
* @idx: pointer to u64 loop variable
* @out_start: ptr to phys_addr_t for start address of the region, can be %NULL
--
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