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From: Helge Deller <helge.deller@sap.com>
To: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>,
	parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] not freeing initmem?
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:24:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16idHP-0003pp-00@linuxlab.wdf.sap-ag.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020306151913.GO787@charite.de>

There is still one or more __init 's too much somewhere. 
If we would free the memory without fixing/finding this place first, 
the kernel will crash.

Helge

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 16:19, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> From my dmesg output of the recent 2.4.18-pa3:
>
> ...
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> NOT FREEING INITMEM (351k)
> Adding Swap: 124800k swap-space (priority -1)
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on sd(8,3), internal journal
> ...
>
> What does that mean? Why is the memory not freed on PA-RISC, but freed
> on x86?
>
> On my x86 box:
>
> ...
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
> ...

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Helge Deller
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-06 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-06 15:19 [parisc-linux] not freeing initmem? Ralf Hildebrandt
2002-03-06 15:24 ` Helge Deller [this message]
2002-03-06 16:45   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 15:27 ` Ralf Hildebrandt

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