linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] arm64: use generic free_initrd

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Message-ID: <20191015161925.5djuqpdeh3z32awn@willie-the-truck>
Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:19:26 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] arm64: use generic free_initrd_mem()

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:39:41AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On October 15, 2019 2:46:59 AM GMT+02:00, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org> wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 11:02:26AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> >> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> >> 
> >> arm64 calls memblock_free() for the initrd area in its implementation
> >of
> >> free_initrd_mem(), but this call has no actual effect that late in
> >the boot
> >> process. By the time initrd is freed, all the reserved memory is
> >managed by
> >> the page allocator and the memblock.reserved is unused, so the only
> >purpose
> >> of the memblock_free() call is to keep track of initrd memory for
> >debugging
> >> and accounting.
> >> 
> >> Without the memblock_free() call the only difference between arm64
> >and the
> >> generic versions of free_initrd_mem() is the memory poisoning.
> >> 
> >> Move memblock_free() call to the generic code, enable it there
> >> for the architectures that define ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK and use the
> >generic
> >> implementation of free_initrd_mem() on arm64.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> >> ---
> >> 
> >> v4:
> >> * memblock_free() aligned area around the initrd
> >
> >Looks straightforward to me:
> >
> >Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
> 
>  Can it go via arm64 tree?

Yes, I was hoping Catalin would pick it up for 5.5.

Will