Messages in this thread | | | From | "Bradley D. LaRonde" <> | Subject | Re: initfunc | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:10:48 -0400 |
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From: wu_yb <wu_yb@263.net> > A newbie question. > In kernel 2.2.x, many functions are declared as __initfunc(), > such as __initfunc(void setup_arch(xxx)), does __initfunc() > means that after this function called, the mem occupied can > be freed ? > > Thanks !!!
Yup.
It puts those functions into the .text.init section. The linker then puts that section (and .data.init) between the nicely aligned symbols __init_begin and __init_end. Then free_initmem() frees up all of those pages, which is called from init() before execve'ing /sbin/init.
Regards, Brad
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