From 05c58752f9dce11e396676eb731a620541590ed0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: CHANDAN VN Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:50:18 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: To remove initrd reserved area entry from memblock INITRD reserved area entry is not removed from memblock even though initrd reserved area is freed. After freeing the memory it is released from memblock. The same can be checked from /sys/kernel/debug/memblock/reserved. The patch makes sure that the initrd entry is removed from memblock when keepinitrd is not enabled. The patch only affects accounting and debugging. This does not fix any memory leak. Acked-by: Laura Abbott Signed-off-by: CHANDAN VN Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c index 9f3c47a..1b18b47 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c @@ -646,8 +646,10 @@ static int keep_initrd __initdata; void __init free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { - if (!keep_initrd) + if (!keep_initrd) { free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, 0, "initrd"); + memblock_free(__virt_to_phys(start), end - start); + } } static int __init keepinitrd_setup(char *__unused) -- 2.7.4