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Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: Fix to call read_initrd after init_bootmem
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Masami,

Am 27.04.2017 um 05:15 schrieb Masami Hiramatsu:
> Since read_initrd() invokes alloc_bootmem() for allocating
> memory to load initrd image, it must be called after init_bootmem.
> 
> This makes read_initrd() called directly from setup_arch()
> after init_bootmem() and mem_total_pages().

Thanks for fixing this! Did you figure since when this is broken?
I think that should go into -stable.

Thanks,
//richard