tree c19f7d0b530577359840e959cce204939caf0649
parent 25fad945a7f7ff2cf06e437381c6a1121784dbd9
author Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> 1202372117 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1202402545 -0800

Introduce flags for reserve_bootmem()

This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the
BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions
between crashkernel area and already used memory.

This patch:

Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE.
If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already
has been reserved in the past.  This is to avoid conflicts.

Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition
inside reserve_bootmem_core().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>