From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org (smtp.osdl.org [65.172.181.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.osdl.org", Issuer "OSDL Hostmaster" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B97BDDEC2 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:24:37 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:24:41 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough In-Reply-To: <1172448057.3971.9.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <200612112059.kBBKx1j7022473@hera.kernel.org> <1172448057.3971.9.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , john stultz List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > > One side-effect of this patch is to move the call to free_initrd() much > later in the init sequence, potentially after other memory management > code is assuming it's already been freed. 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. However, it's an interesting observation. How sure are you that it's this commit that triggers it. You say "This seems to be what's triggering ..", I'm wondering how firm that is.. Linus