The quilt patch titled Subject: initramfs: mark my_inptr as __initdata has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was initramfs-mask-my_inptr-as-__initdata.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ 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> Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 relay-use-kvcalloc-to-alloc-page-array-in-relay_alloc_page_array.patch