From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@sonymobile.com>
Cc: 'Will Deacon' <will.deacon@arm.com>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"'linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org'"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"'linux-mm@kvack.org'" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] arm:extend the reserved mrmory for initrd to be page aligned
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:30:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140915093014.GZ12361@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35FD53F367049845BC99AC72306C23D103D6DB491604@CNBJMBX05.corpusers.net>
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 05:07:53PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tested it on my phone,
> >From log:
> <4>[ 0.000000] INITRD unalign phys address:0x02000000+0x0022fb0e
> <4>[ 0.000000] INITRD aligned phys address:0x02000000+0x00230000
>
> <4>[ 0.579474] free_initrd_mem: free pfn:8192---8752
>
> The tail address is not aligned for most initrd image,
> This page will not be freed and lost .
Right, so from this I can assume that you only tested it by seeing what
the addresses were, and the values used in free_initrd_mem().
What you haven't tested is whether the initrd actually gets used with
your changes, which is more what I was interested in given what I found
when reading your patch.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-15 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-15 5:11 Wang, Yalin
2014-09-15 8:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-09-15 9:07 ` Wang, Yalin
2014-09-15 9:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2014-09-15 9:59 ` Wang, Yalin
2014-09-15 10:16 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-09-15 10:22 ` Wang, Yalin
2014-09-15 10:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-09-15 10:58 ` Wang, Yalin
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