From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753488AbaIOIqa (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2014 04:46:30 -0400 Received: from gw-1.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.217]:56866 "EHLO pandora.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753311AbaIOIq2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2014 04:46:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:46:16 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: "Wang, Yalin" Cc: "'Will Deacon'" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org'" , "'linux-mm@kvack.org'" , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC] arm:extend the reserved mrmory for initrd to be page aligned Message-ID: <20140915084616.GX12361@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <35FD53F367049845BC99AC72306C23D103D6DB4915FC@CNBJMBX05.corpusers.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <35FD53F367049845BC99AC72306C23D103D6DB4915FC@CNBJMBX05.corpusers.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:11:14PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote: > 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. Have you tested this patch? If so, how thorough was your testing? -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.5Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.