[PATCH] catch valid mem range at onlining memory

This patch allows hot-add memory which is not aligned to section.

Now, hot-added memory has to be aligned to section size.  Considering big
section sized archs, this is not useful.

When hot-added memory is registerd as iomem resoruce by iomem resource
patch, we can make use of that information to detect valid memory range.

Note: With this, not-aligned memory can be registerd. To allow hot-add
      memory with holes, we have to do more work around add_memory().
      (It doesn't allows add memory to already existing mem section.)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
index cd6bd001ba4e..edfc733b1575 100644
--- a/include/linux/ioport.h
+++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ extern int allocate_resource(struct resource *root, struct resource *new,
 int adjust_resource(struct resource *res, unsigned long start,
                     unsigned long size);
 
+/* get registered SYSTEM_RAM resources in specified area */
+extern int find_next_system_ram(struct resource *res);
+
 /* Convenience shorthand with allocation */
 #define request_region(start,n,name)    __request_region(&ioport_resource, (start), (n), (name))
 #define request_mem_region(start,n,name) __request_region(&iomem_resource, (start), (n), (name))