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authorAndrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>2013-04-29 15:08:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-04-29 15:54:37 -0700
commit1640879afe0065caf276e98fff059c4dc01c97ae (patch)
tree2ba94e09a5cd2c49dbeed2d30bc5bdbbddc04ec8 /README
parent4eeab4f5580d11bffedc697684b91b0bca0d5009 (diff)
downloadlinux-1640879afe0065caf276e98fff059c4dc01c97ae.tar.bz2
mm: reinititalise user and admin reserves if memory is added or removed
Alter the admin and user reserves of the previous patches in this series when memory is added or removed. If memory is added and the reserves have been eliminated or increased above the default max, then we'll trust the admin. If memory is removed and there isn't enough free memory, then we need to reset the reserves. Otherwise keep the reserve set by the admin. The reserve reset code is the same as the reserve initialization code. I tested hot addition and removal by triggering it via sysfs. The reserves shrunk when they were set high and memory was removed. They were reset higher when memory was added again. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use register_hotmemory_notifier()] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: init_user_reserve() and init_admin_reserve can no longer be __meminit] [fengguang.wu@intel.com: make init_reserve_notifier() static] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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