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

[Chandan Vn]

Please ignore this mail. I missed replying to the thread.
I have resubmitted over the proper thread.

On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, 09:44 CHANDAN VN, <chandan.vn@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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)
> --
> 1.9.1
>