linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Resend] arm:extend __init

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Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:15:06 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@...ymobile.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	"'linux-mm@...ck.org'" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"'linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org'" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC Resend] arm:extend __init_end to a page align address

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:55:25AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 06:26:43PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> > this patch change the __init_end address to a page align address, so that free_initmem()
> > can free the whole .init section, because if the end address is not page aligned,
> > it will round down to a page align address, then the tail unligned page will not be freed.
> 
> Please wrap commit messages at or before column 72 - this makes "git log"
> much easier to read once the change has been committed.
> 
> I have no objection to the arch/arm part of this patch.  However, since
> different people deal with arch/arm and arch/arm64, this patch needs to
> be split.

I don't mind how it goes in. If Russell is ok to take the whole patch:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
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