On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:11:43 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:54:03 +0100 Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> wrote:
> 
> > I've gone through the dumps now, and still no meaningful difference.
> > All the big bootmem allocations are present in both kernels, and the
> > remaining memory in initcall is also the same for both (and doesn't
> > really decrease by any meaningful amount).
> > 
> > I also tried booting with init=/bin/sh, and the lost memory is present
> > even at that point.
> > 
> 
> So we know that the memory gets consumed after end-of-initcalls and
> before exec-of-init?  

This is a fedora machine, so initrd might be the provoking party here.
I haven't yet tried the adventure of booting without initrd. It's after
initcalls at least.

Right now I'm compiling 2.6.27-rc1 in an effort to bisect this, but if
you have something more worthwhile then shoot. :)

Rgds
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