[PATCH] arm64:free_initrd_mem should also free the memblock
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Sep 15 11:33:34 PDT 2014
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:17:18AM +0100, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> this patch fix the memblock statics for memblock
> in file /sys/kernel/debug/memblock/reserved
> if we don't call memblock_free the initrd will still
> be marked as reserved, even they are freed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.wang at sonymobile.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 5472c24..34605c8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -334,8 +334,10 @@ static int keep_initrd;
>
> void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> {
> - if (!keep_initrd)
> + if (!keep_initrd) {
> free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, 0, "initrd");
> + memblock_free(__pa(start), end - start);
> + }
I don't think it makes any technical difference, but doing the memblock_free
before the free_reserved_area makes more sense to me.
Will
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