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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
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Subject: Re: free_initmem() bug
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:28:13 +0200
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>
>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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