The patch titled
Subject: initramfs: mark my_inptr as __initdata
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
initramfs-mask-my_inptr-as-__initdata.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/initramfs-mask-my_inptr-as-__initdata.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: wuchi <wuchi.zero@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: initramfs: mark my_inptr as __initdata
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 15:11:16 +0800
As my_inptr is only used in __init function unpack_to_rootfs(), mark it as
__initdata to allow it be freed after boot.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220827071116.83078-1-wuchi.zero@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: wuchi <wuchi.zero@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
init/initramfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/init/initramfs.c~initramfs-mask-my_inptr-as-__initdata
+++ a/init/initramfs.c
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ static long __init flush_buffer(void *bu
return origLen;
}
-static unsigned long my_inptr; /* index of next byte to be processed in inbuf */
+static unsigned long my_inptr __initdata; /* index of next byte to be processed in inbuf */
#include <linux/decompress/generic.h>
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from wuchi.zero@xxxxxxxxx are
lib-debugobjects-fix-stat-count-and-optimize-debug_objects_mem_init.patch
initramfs-mask-my_inptr-as-__initdata.patch
