this patch change the __init_end address to a page align address, so that free_initmem() can free the whole .init section, because if the end address is not page aligned, it will round down to a page align address, then the tail unligned page will not be freed. Signed-off-by: wang <yalin.wang2010@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 6f57cb9..8e95aa4 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ SECTIONS __data_loc = ALIGN(4); /* location in binary */ . = PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET; #else - __init_end = .; . = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE); + __init_end = .; __data_loc = .; #endif diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 97f0c04..edf8715 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -97,9 +97,9 @@ SECTIONS PERCPU_SECTION(64) + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __init_end = .; - . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); _data = .; _sdata = .; RW_DATA_SECTION(64, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE) -- 1.9.2.msysgit.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href