[PATCH] arm64/mm: Delete __init region from memblock.reserved

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Fri Aug 30 01:14:54 PDT 2024


Hi Rong,

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 at 10:00, Rong Qianfeng <rongqianfeng at vivo.com> wrote:
>
> If CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK is enabled, the memory information in
> memblock will be retained. We release the __init memory here, and
> we should also delete the corresponding region in memblock.reserved.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rong Qianfeng <rongqianfeng at vivo.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index bfb10969cbf0..99cfa217e905 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -402,6 +402,13 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
>
>  void free_initmem(void)
>  {
> +       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK)) {

This is always true on arm64

> +               unsigned long aligned_begin = ALIGN_DOWN((u64)__init_begin, PAGE_SIZE);
> +               unsigned long aligned_end = ALIGN((u64)__init_end, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> +               memblock_free((void *)aligned_begin, aligned_end - aligned_begin);
> +       }
> +

What does this achieve? The memory is already being reused by the page
allocator (due to free_reserved_area()), and the memblock allocator is
no longer usable at this point anyway.

>         free_reserved_area(lm_alias(__init_begin),
>                            lm_alias(__init_end),
>                            POISON_FREE_INITMEM, "unused kernel");



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