Re: [Patch 1/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory

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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

+
+	start = roundup(start, PAGE_SIZE);
+	end = roundup(start + new_size, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+	for (addr = end; addr < crashk_res.end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+		ClearPageReserved(pfn_to_page(addr >> PAGE_SHIFT));
+		init_page_count(pfn_to_page(addr >> PAGE_SHIFT));
+		free_page((unsigned long)__va(addr));
+		totalram_pages++;

Any chance we can move this inline snippet into a helper function in
-mm.  To expose what is happening here to the mm developers.


Yes, I believe so. In fact I also wanted to do this, but I forgot before I sent these patches... Will do it in the next version.

Thanks.


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