Subject: [PATCH] arm64: use generic free_initrd_mem()

From: Mike Rapoport <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:21:28 +0300

From: Mike Rapoport <[email-masked]>

arm64 calls memblock_free() for the initrd area in its implementation of
free_initrd_mem(), but this call has no actual effect that late in the boot
process. By the time initrd is freed, all the reserved memory is managed by
the page allocator and the memblock.reserved is unused, so there is no
point to update it.

Without the memblock_free() call the only difference between arm64 and the
generic versions of free_initrd_mem() is the memory poisoning. Switching
arm64 to the generic version will enable the poisoning.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email-masked]>
---

I've boot tested it on qemu and I've checked that kexec works.

 arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index f3c7952..8ad2934 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -567,14 +567,6 @@ void free_initmem(void)
 	unmap_kernel_range((u64)__init_begin, (u64)(__init_end - __init_begin));
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
-void __init free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
-{
-	free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, 0, "initrd");
-	memblock_free(__virt_to_phys(start), end - start);
-}
-#endif
-
 /*
  * Dump out memory limit information on panic.
  */
-- 
2.7.4

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