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mm/hugetlb: add region_del() to delete a specific range of entries
fallocate hole punch will want to remove a specific range of pages. The existing region_truncate() routine deletes all region/reserve map entries after a specified offset. region_del() will provide this same functionality if the end of region is specified as LONG_MAX. Hence, region_del() can replace region_truncate(). Unlike region_truncate(), region_del() can return an error in the rare case where it can not allocate memory for a region descriptor. This ONLY happens in the case where an existing region must be split. Current callers passing LONG_MAX as end of range will never experience this error and do not need to deal with error handling. Future callers of region_del() (such as fallocate hole punch) will need to handle this error. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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