netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] move unneeded data to initdata section

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Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:43:34 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"Denis V. Lunev" <den@...ru>, "Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>,
	davem@...emloft.net, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, clg@...ibm.com, benjamin.thery@...l.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] move unneeded data to initdata section

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:19:26AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:42:04PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> >> 
> >> nothing is discarded after module load. Though, I can be wrong. Could
> >> you point me to the exact place?
> > If __initdata is not discarded after module load then we should do it.
> > There is no reason to waste __initdata RAM when the module is loaded.
> 
> Down at the bottom of sys_init_module we have:
> 
> 	/* Drop initial reference. */
> 	module_put(mod);
> 	unwind_remove_table(mod->unwind_info, 1);
> 
> 	module_free(mod, mod->module_init);
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	mod->module_init = NULL;
> 	mod->init_size = 0;
> 	mod->init_text_size = 0;
> 	mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
> 
> 	return 0;
> 
> Which frees the memory for the .init sections.

Thanks for clarifying this Eric - should have looked myself..

	Sam
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