From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:39:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FB8EBC2.1080800@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1ALlQs-000769-00.arvidjaar-mail-ru@f7.mail.ru
Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> my example is after pivot_root. I still have two roots.
>
> To clarify. I want to replace initrd with initramfs. Given all
> the stuff may be put in it can easily be expanded to a couple of MBs.
> initrd frees this. I do not want to waste RAM to leave them in initramfs.
Absolutely, the memory should be reclaimed. I would have thought that
you could just unmount it--if the pivot_root is done properly there
shouldn't be any references left to the initramfs.
Jeff?
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-16 17:09 Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted? Andrey Borzenkov
2003-11-16 19:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-17 14:39 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 15:36 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2003-11-17 15:39 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-11-17 15:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-17 18:32 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-11-17 15:47 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-11-17 16:06 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 16:25 ` Erik Mouw
2003-11-17 17:25 ` viro
2003-11-17 17:47 ` viro
2003-11-17 17:50 ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 18:03 ` viro
2003-11-17 18:33 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2003-11-17 19:15 ` viro
2003-11-19 14:19 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-19 15:07 ` Hannes Reinecke
2003-11-25 18:26 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
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