I'm somewhat confused by this... you realize that the old location and the
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -585,6 +585,9 @@ static void __init relocate_initrd(void)
printk(KERN_INFO "Copied RAMDISK from %016llx - %016llx to %08llx -
%08llx\n",
ramdisk_image, ramdisk_image + ramdisk_size - 1,
ramdisk_here, ramdisk_here + ramdisk_size - 1);
+
+ /* need to free that, otherwise init highmem will reserve it again
*/
+ free_early(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_image+ramdisk_size);
}
new location of the initrd will overlap, right?
Ying Huang add page_is_reserved_early check in
add_one_highpage_init(), so reserve_early high address will be
reserved when in init high. that is not wanted old initrd in high
region we will lose some ram