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mm: enhance region_is_ram() to region_intersects()
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tue, 11 Aug 2015 03:07:05 +0000 (23:07 -0400)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tue, 11 Aug 2015 03:07:05 +0000 (23:07 -0400)
commit124fe20d94630b6f173dae5eb815e6e6e350c72d
treefc550c3a1a497f770b81b87ca574a1273dd965a7
parentf6ef5a2a50816b58e3126206de13d0b9fdf89df5
mm: enhance region_is_ram() to region_intersects()

region_is_ram() is used to prevent the establishment of aliased mappings
to physical "System RAM" with incompatible cache settings.  However, it
uses "-1" to indicate both "unknown" memory ranges (ranges not described
by platform firmware) and "mixed" ranges (where the parameters describe
a range that partially overlaps "System RAM").

Fix this up by explicitly tracking the "unknown" vs "mixed" resource
cases and returning REGION_INTERSECTS, REGION_MIXED, or REGION_DISJOINT.
This re-write also adds support for detecting when the requested region
completely eclipses all of a resource.  Note, the implementation treats
overlaps between "unknown" and the requested memory type as
REGION_INTERSECTS.

Finally, other memory types can be passed in by name, for now the only
usage "System RAM".

Suggested-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
include/linux/mm.h
kernel/resource.c