Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 20:17 -0500, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 16:24 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Hmm. No, I don't think that should be a problem. free_initmem() only 
> > happens at the very, after do_basic_setup() has been run, which
> > includes all the initcall stuff.
> 
> I'm inclined to agree that it _shouldn't_ be a problem. Nevertheless,
> even this hack seems sufficient to 'fix' it:

Could be a powerpc specific bug in initrd handling... I'm still
traveling so I can't really look at it right now, but I wouldn't be
surprised if some of that code did indeed bitrot.

Ben.

> --- arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c   2007-02-25 20:06:54.000000000 -0500
> +++ arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c.not       2007-02-25 20:06:41.000000000 -0500
> @@ -243,13 +243,14 @@ void free_initmem(void)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
>  void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>  {
>         if (start < end)
> -               printk ("Freeing initrd memory: %ldk freed\n", (end - start) >> 10);
> +               printk ("NOT Freeing initrd memory: %ldKiB would be freed\n", (end - start) >> 10);
> +       return;
>         for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) {
>                 ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(start));
>                 init_page_count(virt_to_page(start));
>                 free_page(start);
>                 totalram_pages++;
>         }
>  }
>  #endif
> 
>