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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 16:11:03 +0100
From: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@....com.cn>
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Junhua Huang <huang.junhua@....com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: free the initrd reserved memblock in a aligned
manner
Hi,
On 04/07/2019 00:59, Yi Wang wrote:
> From: Junhua Huang <huang.junhua@....com.cn>
>
> We should free the reserved memblock in an aligned manner
> because the initrd reserves the memblock in an aligned manner
> in arm64_memblock_init().
> Otherwise there are some fragments in memblock_reserved regions. e.g.:
> /sys/kernel/debug/memblock # cat reserved
> 0: 0x0000000080080000..0x00000000817fafff
> 1: 0x0000000083400000..0x0000000083ffffff
> 2: 0x0000000090000000..0x000000009000407f
> 3: 0x00000000b0000000..0x00000000b000003f
> 4: 0x00000000b26184ea..0x00000000b2618fff
> The fragments like the ranges from b0000000 to b000003f and
> from b26184ea to b2618fff should be freed.
>
> And we can do free_reserved_area() after memblock_free(),
> as free_reserved_area() calls __free_pages(), once we've done
> that it could be allocated somewhere else,
> but memblock and iomem still say this is reserved memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junhua Huang <huang.junhua@....com.cn>
You need to add your own Signed-off-by after Junhua Huang's. This tells the maintainer
that you're providing the patch with the 'Developer's Certificate of Origin'. Details in
/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index d2adffb81b5d..03774b8bd364 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -580,8 +580,13 @@ void free_initmem(void)
> #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
> void __init free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> {
> + unsigned long aligned_start, aligned_end;
> +
> + aligned_start = __virt_to_phys(start) & PAGE_MASK;
> + aligned_end = PAGE_ALIGN(__virt_to_phys(end));
> + memblock_free(aligned_end, aligned_end - aligned_start);
We're not free-ing the same memory as we reserved here!
(start/end typo)
> free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, 0, "initrd");
> - memblock_free(__virt_to_phys(start), end - start);
> +
(stray newline)
> }
> #endif
Thanks,
James
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