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Message-Id: <20190325072022.GD2925@rapoport-lnx>
Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:20:23 +0200
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] provide a generic free_initmem implementation

Any comments on this?

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:41:21PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Many architectures implement free_initmem() in exactly the same or very
> similar way: they wrap the call to free_initmem_default() with sometimes
> different 'poison' parameter.
> 
> These patches switch those architectures to use a generic implementation
> that does free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM).
> 
> This was inspired by Christoph's patches for free_initrd_mem [1] and I
> shamelessly copied changelog entries from his patches :)
> 
> v2: rebased on top of v5.0-rc7 + Christoph's patches for free_initrd_mem
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190213174621.29297-1-hch@lst.de/
> 
> Mike Rapoport (4):
>   init: provide a generic free_initmem implementation
>   hexagon: switch over to generic free_initmem()
>   init: free_initmem: poison freed init memory
>   riscv: switch over to generic free_initmem()
> 
>  arch/alpha/mm/init.c      |  6 ------
>  arch/arc/mm/init.c        |  8 --------
>  arch/c6x/mm/init.c        |  5 -----
>  arch/h8300/mm/init.c      |  6 ------
>  arch/hexagon/mm/init.c    | 10 ----------
>  arch/microblaze/mm/init.c |  5 -----
>  arch/nds32/mm/init.c      |  5 -----
>  arch/nios2/mm/init.c      |  5 -----
>  arch/openrisc/mm/init.c   |  5 -----
>  arch/riscv/mm/init.c      |  5 -----
>  arch/sh/mm/init.c         |  5 -----
>  arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c   |  5 -----
>  arch/unicore32/mm/init.c  |  5 -----
>  arch/xtensa/mm/init.c     |  5 -----
>  init/main.c               |  5 +++++
>  15 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.