When hot removing memory presented at boot time, following messages are shown:

  kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3409!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: ebtable_nat ebtables xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle bridge stp llc ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc vfat fat dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod vhost_net macvtap macvlan tun uinput iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support coretemp kvm_intel kvm crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel microcode pcspkr sg i2c_i801 lpc_ich mfd_core igb i2c_algo_bit i2c_core e1000e ptp pps_core tpm_infineon ioatdma dca sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif usb_storage megaraid_sas lpfc scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt scsi_mod
  CPU 0
  Pid: 5091, comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G        W    3.9.0-rc6+ #15
  RIP: kfree+0x232/0x240
  Process kworker/0:2 (pid: 5091, threadinfo ffff88084678c000, task ffff88083928ca80)
  Call Trace:
    __release_region+0xd4/0xe0
    __remove_pages+0x52/0x110
    arch_remove_memory+0x89/0xd0
    remove_memory+0xc4/0x100
    acpi_memory_device_remove+0x6d/0xb1
    acpi_device_remove+0x89/0xab
    __device_release_driver+0x7c/0xf0
    device_release_driver+0x2f/0x50
    acpi_bus_device_detach+0x6c/0x70
    acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x11a/0x250
    acpi_walk_namespace+0xee/0x137
    acpi_bus_trim+0x33/0x7a
    acpi_bus_hot_remove_device+0xc4/0x1a1
    acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x27/0x34
    process_one_work+0x1f7/0x590
    worker_thread+0x11a/0x370
    kthread+0xee/0x100
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  RIP  [<ffffffff811c41d2>] kfree+0x232/0x240
   RSP <ffff88084678d968>

The reason why the messages are shown is to release a resource
structure, allocated by bootmem, by kfree().  So when we release a
resource structure, we should check whether it is allocated by bootmem
or not.

But even if we know a resource structure is allocated by bootmem, we
cannot release it since SLxB cannot treat it.  So for reusing a resource
structure, this patch remembers it by using bootmem_resource as follows:

When releasing a resource structure by free_resource(), free_resource()
checks whether the resource structure is allocated by bootmem or not.
If it is allocated by bootmem, free_resource() adds it to
bootmem_resource.  If it is not allocated by bootmem, free_resource()
release it by kfree().

And when getting a new resource structure by get_resource(),
get_resource() checks whether bootmem_resource has released resource
structures or not.  If there is a released resource structure,
get_resource() returns it.  If there is not a releaed resource
structure, get_resource() returns new resource structure allocated by
kzalloc().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/get_resource/alloc_resource/]
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>