linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] memblock: export memblock

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Message-ID: <Znrn-Xh6AV_kKdvt@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:53:29 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Guanshun Liu <lgs156412@...il.com>
Cc: rppt@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] memblock: export memblock_free() to free reserved
 memory.

On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 08:16:52PM +0800, Guanshun Liu wrote:
> On architectures that support the preservation of memblock metadata
> after __init, allow drivers to call memblock_free() to free a
> reservation configured in dts. This is a hack to support the
> freeing of bootsplash reservations passed to Linux by the bootloader.

What driver?