[PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Sep 19 03:00:02 PDT 2014


On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 08:09:47AM +0100, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> this patch extend the start and end address of initrd to be page aligned,
> so that we can free all memory including the un-page aligned head or tail
> page of initrd, if the start or end address of initrd are not page
> aligned, the page can't be freed by free_initrd_mem() function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.wang at sonymobile.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

(as I said, if Russell doesn't have any objections please send the patch
to his patch system)



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