[RFC] arm:extend the reserved mrmory for initrd to be page aligned

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Sep 15 01:46:16 PDT 2014


On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:11:14PM +0800, 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.

Have you tested this patch?  If so, how thorough was your testing?

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