On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 03:43:06AM +0000, Anup Patel wrote: > Sure, the keepinitrd=0 by default so it will always free-up initrd by default. > Please look at v3 patchset. > > Of course, we need separate patch to update documentation of keepinitrd.
No, we need to not just blindly copy what arm did for historic reasons unless we have a very good reason of our own. In addition to not having a real need for any of this in a new setup, it also is duplicated by the retain_initrd parameter which is implemented in generic code - and for that the commit message at least has a rationale related to kexec: https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/7/15
