On 10/04/2019 03:49 PM, Steven Price wrote:
> On 04/10/2019 05:23, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> Platform implementation for free_initmem() should poison the memory while
>> freeing it up. Hence pass across POISON_FREE_INITMEM while calling into
>> free_reserved_area(). The same is being followed in the generic fallback
>> for free_initmem() and some other platforms overriding it.
>>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khand...@arm.com>
>
> Is there a good reason you haven't made a similar change to
> free_initrd_mem() - the same logic seems to apply. However this change
> looks fine to me.
We will use generic free_initrd_mem() going forward as proposed in a recent
patch which does call free_reserved_area() with POISON_FREE_INITMEM.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11165379/
>
> Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.pr...@arm.com>
>
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>> index 45c00a54909c..ea7d38011e83 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
>> {
>> free_reserved_area(lm_alias(__init_begin),
>> lm_alias(__init_end),
>> - 0, "unused kernel");
>> + POISON_FREE_INITMEM, "unused kernel");
>> /*
>> * Unmap the __init region but leave the VM area in place. This
>> * prevents the region from being reused for kernel modules, which
>>
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