From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de (smtpde02.sap-ag.de [194.39.131.53]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10324868 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:24:37 -0700 (MST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Helge Deller To: Ralf Hildebrandt , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] not freeing initmem? Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:24:35 +0100 References: <20020306151913.GO787@charite.de> In-Reply-To: <20020306151913.GO787@charite.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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 > ... -- Helge Deller SAP AG - LinuxLab and Unix Platforms email: helge.deller@sap.com Phone: +49 6227 7 - 67783