From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: free_initmem() bug
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:28:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000803132813.29461@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007311937060.442-100000@cassiopeia.home>
>
>free_initmem() must not be __init because that means sawing the branch
>underneat itselves, which may cause a crash.
>
>I also optimized the freeing of the various sections, both from a soure and
>object view.
>
>The patch is half tested, i.e. it compiles. Since I won't be able to do
bk for
>a while, can someone please take care of this? Thanks!
Ah, this might explain some problems I had with 2.4 hangs on freeing init
mem...
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2000-08-02 20:11 free_initmem() bug Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-03 13:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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