Re: [PATCH] arm64:free_initrd_mem should also free the memblock

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 12:28:36 EST


On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:53:55AM +0100, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> The reason that a want merge this patch is that
> It confuse me when I debug memory issue by
> /sys/kernel/debug/memblock/reserved debug file,
> It show lots of un-correct reserved memory.
> In fact, I also send a patch to cma driver part
> For this issue too:
> http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/free-the-reserved-memblock-when-free-cma-pages.patch
>
> I want to remove these un-correct memblock parts as much as possible,
> so that I can see more correct info from /sys/kernel/debug/memblock/reserved
> debug file .

Could we not always call memblock_free() from free_reserved_area() (with
a dummy definition when !CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK)?

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Catalin
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