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HMM consumes physical address space for its own use, even though nothing is mapped or accessible there. It uses a special resource description (IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY) to uniquely identify these areas. When HMM consumes address space, it makes a best guess about what to consume. However, it is possible that a future memory or device hotplug can collide with the reserved area. In the case of these conflicts, there is an error message in register_memory_resource(). Later patches in this series move register_memory_resource() from using request_resource_conflict() to __request_region(). Unfortunately, __request_region() does not return the conflict like the previous function did, which makes it impossible to check for IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY in a conflicting resource. Instead of warning in register_memory_resource(), move the check into the core resource code itself (__request_region()) where the conflicting resource _is_ available. This has the added bonus of producing a warning in case of HMM conflicts with devices *or* RAM address space, as opposed to the RAM- only warnings that were there previously. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.