[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "tile: use free_bootmem_late() for initrd" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Aug 11 12:56:34 UTC 2015
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
tile: use free_bootmem_late() for initrd
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt16.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 01f53189828f1de67fa60a4ab3341c7b82702347 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at ezchip.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:11:09 -0400
Subject: tile: use free_bootmem_late() for initrd
commit 3f81d2447b37ac697b3c600039f2c6b628c06e21 upstream.
We were previously using free_bootmem() and just getting lucky
that nothing too bad happened.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at ezchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
arch/tile/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/setup.c b/arch/tile/kernel/setup.c
index 112ababa9e55..d8a9df999da3 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ static void __init load_hv_initrd(void)
void __init free_initrd_mem(unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
{
- free_bootmem(__pa(begin), end - begin);
+ free_bootmem_late(__pa(begin), end - begin);
}
static int __init setup_initrd(char *str)
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