resource: add release_child_resources
Useful for freeing a portion of the resource tree, e.g. when trying to
reallocate resources more efficiently.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 7fd123a..24e9e60 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -188,6 +188,36 @@
return -EINVAL;
}
+static void __release_child_resources(struct resource *r)
+{
+ struct resource *tmp, *p;
+ resource_size_t size;
+
+ p = r->child;
+ r->child = NULL;
+ while (p) {
+ tmp = p;
+ p = p->sibling;
+
+ tmp->parent = NULL;
+ tmp->sibling = NULL;
+ __release_child_resources(tmp);
+
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "release child resource %pR\n", tmp);
+ /* need to restore size, and keep flags */
+ size = resource_size(tmp);
+ tmp->start = 0;
+ tmp->end = size - 1;
+ }
+}
+
+void release_child_resources(struct resource *r)
+{
+ write_lock(&resource_lock);
+ __release_child_resources(r);
+ write_unlock(&resource_lock);
+}
+
/**
* request_resource - request and reserve an I/O or memory resource
* @root: root resource descriptor
