this patch extend the start and end address of initrd to be page aligned, so that we can free all memory including the un-page aligned head or tail page of initrd, if the start or end address of initrd are not page aligned, the page can't be freed by free_initrd_mem() function.
Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.w...@sonymobile.com> --- arch/arm/mm/init.c | 5 +++++ arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c index 659c75d..9221645 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c @@ -636,6 +636,11 @@ static int keep_initrd; void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { if (!keep_initrd) { + if (start == initrd_start) + start = round_down(start, PAGE_SIZE); + if (end == initrd_end) + end = round_up(end, PAGE_SIZE); + poison_init_mem((void *)start, PAGE_ALIGN(end) - start); free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, -1, "initrd"); } diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c index 5472c24..c5512f6 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c @@ -334,8 +334,14 @@ static int keep_initrd; void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { - if (!keep_initrd) + if (!keep_initrd) { + if (start == initrd_start) + start = round_down(start, PAGE_SIZE); + if (end == initrd_end) + end = round_up(end, PAGE_SIZE); + free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, 0, "initrd"); + } } static int __init keepinitrd_setup(char *__unused) -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/