RE: [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned

From: Wang, Yalin
Date: Sat Sep 27 2014 - 21:50:29 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:31:42PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:00:02AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 08:09:47AM +0100, 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.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > (as I said, if Russell doesn't have any objections please send the
> > > patch to his patch system)
> >
> > I now have an objection. The patches in the emails were properly
> formatted.
>
> They were so close ;)
>
> I can see three patches but none of them exactly right:
>
> 8157/1 - wrong diff format
> 8159/1 - correct format, does not have my ack (you can take this one if
> you want)
> 8162/1 - got my ack this time but with the wrong diff format again
>
> Maybe a pull request is a better idea.
>
I have resend the 2 patches:
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8167/1
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8168/1

please have a look.

Thanks



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