Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

[Kumar Gala]

On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 20:17 -0500, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 16:24 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Hmm. No, I don't think that should be a problem. free_initmem() only
> > > happens at the very, after do_basic_setup() has been run, which
> > > includes all the initcall stuff.
> >
> > I'm inclined to agree that it _shouldn't_ be a problem. Nevertheless,
> > even this hack seems sufficient to 'fix' it:
>
> Could be a powerpc specific bug in initrd handling... I'm still
> traveling so I can't really look at it right now, but I wouldn't be
> surprised if some of that code did indeed bitrot.
>
> Ben.

Could there be some issue with initrd getting reserved properly via  
prom_init.c.  I know we make sure there are memreserve's in the fdt  
for initrd on embedded ppc.

- k
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