Re: [PATCH v17 3/6] powerpc/kexec: move *_memory_ranges functions to ranges.c

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 02/26/24 at 02:11pm, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> Move the following functions form kexec/{file_load_64.c => ranges.c} and
> make them public so that components other KEXEC_FILE can also use these
                                           ^
                                          'than' missed?
> functions.
> 1. get_exclude_memory_ranges
> 2. get_reserved_memory_ranges
> 3. get_crash_memory_ranges
> 4. get_usable_memory_ranges
> 
> Later in the series get_crash_memory_ranges function is utilized for
> in-kernel updates to kdump image during CPU/Memory hotplug or
> online/offline events for both kexec_load and kexec_file_load syscalls.
> 
> Since the above functions are moved to ranges.c, some of the helper
> functions in ranges.c are no longer required to be public. Mark them as
> static and removed them from kexec_ranges.h header file.
> 
> Finally, remove the CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE build dependency for range.c
> because it is required for other config, such as CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP.
> 
> No functional changes are intended.
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