Hi I tested it on my phone, >From log: <4>[ 0.000000] INITRD unalign phys address:0x02000000+0x0022fb0e <4>[ 0.000000] INITRD aligned phys address:0x02000000+0x00230000 <4>[ 0.579474] free_initrd_mem: free pfn:8192---8752 The tail address is not aligned for most initrd image, This page will not be freed and lost . This patch have a limitation that the tail page's not used Part should not be reserved by any other driver, And must be memory . This is true for most bootloaders , And we will print error if it is false . Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Russell King - ARM Linux [mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 4:46 PM To: Wang, Yalin Cc: 'Will Deacon'; 'linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; 'linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; 'linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx'; linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RFC] arm:extend the reserved mrmory for initrd to be page aligned On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:11:14PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote: > this patch extend the start and end address of initrd to be page > aligned, so that we can free all memory including the un-page aligned > head or tail page of initrd, if the start or end address of initrd are > not page aligned, the page can't be freed by free_initrd_mem() function. Have you tested this patch? If so, how thorough was your testing? -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.5Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- 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