Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:46:59 +0100 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] arm64: use generic free_initrd_mem() |
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On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 11:02:26AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> > > arm64 calls memblock_free() for the initrd area in its implementation of > free_initrd_mem(), but this call has no actual effect that late in the boot > process. By the time initrd is freed, all the reserved memory is managed by > the page allocator and the memblock.reserved is unused, so the only purpose > of the memblock_free() call is to keep track of initrd memory for debugging > and accounting. > > Without the memblock_free() call the only difference between arm64 and the > generic versions of free_initrd_mem() is the memory poisoning. > > Move memblock_free() call to the generic code, enable it there > for the architectures that define ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK and use the generic > implementation of free_initrd_mem() on arm64. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> > --- > > v4: > * memblock_free() aligned area around the initrd
Looks straightforward to me:
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Will
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