[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "tile: use free_bootmem_late() for initrd" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Sep 2 00:55:29 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-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt26.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 23012859edd8fbf25cb59b771d262e80bc6ad82d 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 74c9172..bdb3ecf 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ 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)
--
1.9.1





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