linux-kernel - [PATCH 4 of 4] paravirt_ops: don't steal memory resources in paravirt_disable

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Message-Id: <9befcae155388f3f0e71.1206664120@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:28:40 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4 of 4] paravirt_ops: don't steal memory resources in
	paravirt_disable_iospace

The memory resource is also used for main memory, and we need it to
allocate physical addresses for memory hotplug.  Knobbling io space is
enough to get the job done anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c |   18 +-----------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -206,13 +206,6 @@
 	.flags = IORESOURCE_IO | IORESOURCE_BUSY,
 };
 
-static struct resource reserve_iomem = {
-	.start = 0,
-	.end = -1,
-	.name = "paravirt-iomem",
-	.flags = IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_BUSY,
-};
-
 /*
  * Reserve the whole legacy IO space to prevent any legacy drivers
  * from wasting time probing for their hardware.  This is a fairly
@@ -222,16 +215,7 @@
  */
 int paravirt_disable_iospace(void)
 {
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = request_resource(&ioport_resource, &reserve_ioports);
-	if (ret == 0) {
-		ret = request_resource(&iomem_resource, &reserve_iomem);
-		if (ret)
-			release_resource(&reserve_ioports);
-	}
-
-	return ret;
+	return request_resource(&ioport_resource, &reserve_ioports);
 }
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(enum paravirt_lazy_mode, paravirt_lazy_mode) = PARAVIRT_LAZY_NONE;


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