Re: [PATCHv2 1/1] arm64: To remove initrd reserved area entry from memblock

[Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>]

On 04/29/2018 09:20 PM, CHANDAN VN wrote:
> INITRD reserved area entry is not removed from memblock
> even though initrd reserved area is freed. After freeing
> the memory it is released from memblock. The same can be
> checked from /sys/kernel/debug/memblock/reserved.
> 
> The patch makes sure that the initrd entry is removed from
> memblock when keepinitrd is not enabled.
> 
> The patch only affects accounting and debugging. This does not
> fix any memory leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: CHANDAN VN <chandan.vn@samsung.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 9f3c47a..1b18b47 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -646,8 +646,10 @@ void free_initmem(void)
>   
>   void __init 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(__virt_to_phys(start), end - start);
> +	}
>   }
>   
>   static int __init keepinitrd_setup(char *__unused)
> 

Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>