From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add initcall_blacklist kernel parameter [v4]
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:08:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <534D3D4E.9080408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140414224042.GG22728@two.firstfloor.org>
On 04/14/2014 06:40 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Let's not leak all those blacklist entries when we're finished?
>
> It's difficult, because you cannot free bootmem after bootmem is
> finished.
>
> For the rare debug case some leaking should be acceptable.
>
Andrew, FWIW I agree with Andi on this. It is a minor leak in a debug
situation. I'd also like to know in a kdump situation what was specified as
blacklisted so keeping this memory around is IMO a good idea.
P.
> -Andi
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-15 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-01 15:19 [PATCH] Add initcall_blacklist kernel parameter [v4] Prarit Bhargava
2014-04-14 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-14 22:40 ` Andi Kleen
2014-04-15 14:08 ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
2014-04-15 15:15 ` [PATCH] Add initcall_blacklist kernel parameter [v5] Prarit Bhargava
2014-04-15 20:04 ` Andrew Morton
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