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Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 17, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Shay H. Akirav, Petach-Tikva, IL;

Oren Bar, Rishon Lezion, IL;

Roman Barsky, Netanya, IL;

Itay Maoz, Haifa, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1081 (2016.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1081 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01);
Abstract

For efficient reclamation of pre-allocated direct memory access (DMA) memory in a computing environment, hot-add random access memory (RAM) is emulated for a general purpose use by reclamation of pre-allocated DMA memory reserved at boot time by notifying a non-kernel use device user that the non-kernel use device has a smaller window, stopping and remapping to the smaller window, and notifying a kernel that new memory has been added, wherein the new memory is a region left after the remap. The hot-add RAM is split into at least two continuous parts.


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