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memblock: add memblock_cap_memory_range()
Add memblock_cap_memory_range() which will remove all the memblock regions except the memory range specified in the arguments. In addition, rework is done on memblock_mem_limit_remove_map() to re-implement it using memblock_cap_memory_range(). This function, like memblock_mem_limit_remove_map(), will not remove memblocks with MEMMAP_NOMAP attribute as they may be mapped and accessed later as "device memory." See the commit a571d4e ("mm/memblock.c: add new infrastructure to address the mem limit issue"). This function is used, in a succeeding patch in the series of arm64 kdump suuport, to limit the range of usable memory, or System RAM, on crash dump kernel. (Please note that "mem=" parameter is of little use for this purpose.) Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Acked-by: Dennis Chen <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
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