The patch titled
Subject: mm: report which part of mem is being freed on initmem case
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-report-which-part-of-mem-is-being-freed-on-initmem-case.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-report-which-part-of-mem-is-being-freed-on-initmem-case.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-report-which-part-of-mem-is-being-freed-on-initmem-case.patch
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From: Jungseung Lee <js07.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: report which part of mem is being freed on initmem case
Add the details for figuring out which parts of the kernel image is being
freed on initmem case.
Before:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K
After:
Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 1024K
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1622706274-4533-1-git-send-email-js07.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jungseung Lee <js07.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-report-which-part-of-mem-is-being-freed-on-initmem-case
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ static inline unsigned long free_initmem
extern char __init_begin[], __init_end[];
return free_reserved_area(&__init_begin, &__init_end,
- poison, "unused kernel");
+ poison, "unused kernel image (initmem)");
}
static inline unsigned long get_num_physpages(void)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from js07.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-report-which-part-of-mem-is-being-freed-on-initmem-case.patch
