The original goal of this patchset is to fix the bug reported by https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53501 Now it has also been expanded to reduce common code used by memory initializion. This is the first part, which applies to v3.9-rc1. It introduces following common helper functions to simplify free_initmem() and free_initrd_mem() on different architectures: adjust_managed_page_count(): will be used to adjust totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages, zone->managed_pages when reserving/unresering a page. __free_reserved_page(): free a reserved page into the buddy system without adjusting page statistics info free_reserved_page(): free a reserved page into the buddy system and adjust page statistics info mark_page_reserved(): mark a page as reserved and adjust page statistics info free_reserved_area(): free a continous ranges of pages by calling free_reserved_page() free_initmem_default(): default method to free __init pages. We have only tested these patchset on x86 platforms, and have done basic compliation tests using cross-compilers from ftp.kernel.org. That means some code may not pass compilation on some architectures. So any help to test this patchset are welcomed! There are several other parts still under development: Part2: introduce free_highmem_page() to simplify freeing highmem pages Part3: refine code to manage totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and zone->managed_pages Part4: introduce helper functions to simplify mem_init() and remove the global variable num_physpages. Jiang Liu (29): mm: introduce common help functions to deal with reserved/managed pages mm/alpha: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/ARM: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/avr32: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/blackfin: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/c6x: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/cris: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/FRV: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/h8300: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/IA64: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/m32r: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/m68k: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/microblaze: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/MIPS: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/mn10300: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/openrisc: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/parisc: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/ppc: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/s390: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/score: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/SH: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/SPARC: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/um: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/unicore32: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/x86: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/xtensa: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/arc: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm/metag: use common help functions to free reserved pages mm,kexec: use common help functions to free reserved pages arch/alpha/kernel/sys_nautilus.c | 5 ++- arch/alpha/mm/init.c | 24 ++----------- arch/alpha/mm/numa.c | 3 +- arch/arc/mm/init.c | 23 ++---------- arch/arm/mm/init.c | 48 +++++++++----------------- arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 26 ++------------ arch/avr32/mm/init.c | 24 ++----------- arch/blackfin/mm/init.c | 22 ++---------- arch/c6x/mm/init.c | 30 ++-------------- arch/cris/mm/init.c | 16 ++------- arch/frv/mm/init.c | 34 +++--------------- arch/h8300/mm/init.c | 30 ++-------------- arch/ia64/mm/init.c | 23 +++--------- arch/m32r/mm/init.c | 26 ++------------ arch/m68k/mm/init.c | 24 ++----------- arch/metag/mm/init.c | 21 ++--------- arch/microblaze/include/asm/setup.h | 1 - arch/microblaze/mm/init.c | 28 ++------------- arch/mips/mm/init.c | 31 +++++------------ arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c | 4 +-- arch/mn10300/mm/init.c | 23 ++---------- arch/openrisc/mm/init.c | 27 ++------------- arch/parisc/mm/init.c | 23 ++---------- arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c | 5 +-- arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 5 +-- arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c | 7 +--- arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 29 ++-------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc512x_shared.c | 5 +-- arch/s390/mm/init.c | 35 ++++--------------- arch/score/mm/init.c | 33 +++--------------- arch/sh/mm/init.c | 26 ++------------ arch/sparc/kernel/leon_smp.c | 15 ++------ arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c | 37 ++------------------ arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 26 +++----------- arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 10 +----- arch/unicore32/mm/init.c | 28 ++------------- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 5 +-- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 5 ++- arch/xtensa/mm/init.c | 21 ++--------- include/linux/mm.h | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/kexec.c | 8 ++--- mm/page_alloc.c | 20 +++++++++++ 42 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 700 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. 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