On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:19:26AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:42:04PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > >> > >> nothing is discarded after module load. Though, I can be wrong. Could > >> you point me to the exact place? > > If __initdata is not discarded after module load then we should do it. > > There is no reason to waste __initdata RAM when the module is loaded. > > Down at the bottom of sys_init_module we have: > > /* Drop initial reference. */ > module_put(mod); > unwind_remove_table(mod->unwind_info, 1); > > module_free(mod, mod->module_init); > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > mod->module_init = NULL; > mod->init_size = 0; > mod->init_text_size = 0; > mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); > > return 0; > > Which frees the memory for the .init sections. Thanks for clarifying this Eric - should have looked myself.. Sam _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
