This is done by the function "free_initmem()" which is an architecture specific function defined in linux-*/arch/<arch>/mm/init.c.
This function frees the memory between the symbols __init_begin and __init_end (which need to be page-aligned).
During compilation, all symbols defined with __init macro are put in the .init section.
As explained before, these a
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