From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D660C282C4 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:08:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE71B21773 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lists.infradead.org header.i=@lists.infradead.org header.b="EDcQfWKS" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org EE71B21773 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-riscv-bounces+infradead-linux-riscv=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Cc:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=LoZ6781964Zds3wgXt5wjUaTVBoiGU40JfZbIzfrXfM=; b=EDcQfWKSLzehT2 dDP5ZLg4MvvmYb1H/WJRkvf6ES0N1EhVqEIKw1LFt3zHpSb2FNSB6vSgb4GAABZKhCOqVXlr4L5fo p/QSDCJRfqx+BEVDawm6oy3MLE3OOKcw7ZBZFd0QR84eqJIqFxQxn+x7HrfZ3w1Py/MSaM7bGp/4g EFL9W3BwoaP5vcyg//xdhGp0QOAr+tnWOk2kTPstE3VUS/ymr4O+cay7To5aPtDyDWs/bZXRjWfd4 uMDVeMH5Y9Fs8DOuQfND8l7jHSsoAfVR0qg3LCRtsvi3B8KOLx6Iy9p65qCT4VaAU0SS2gnEb7SCv agKygRHKHSLkAB9LlOjg==; Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1gtSAr-0000ya-LQ; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:08:09 +0000 Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1gtSAq-0000xf-11; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:08:08 +0000 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:08:07 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Anup Patel Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] RISC-V: Implement keepinitrd kernel parameter Message-ID: <20190212070807.GD26747@infradead.org> References: <20190119132650.9978-1-anup.patel@wdc.com> <20190119132650.9978-7-anup.patel@wdc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190119132650.9978-7-anup.patel@wdc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-BeenThere: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Albert Ou , Palmer Dabbelt , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Christoph Hellwig , Atish Patra , Paul Walmsley , "linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-riscv" Errors-To: linux-riscv-bounces+infradead-linux-riscv=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 01:28:59PM +0000, Anup Patel wrote: > This patch implements keepinitrd kernel parameter. By default, > keepinitrd=1 but users can pass "keepinitrd=0" to free-up > initrd memory at boot-time in free_initrd_mem() function. > > The keepinitrd kernel parameter is already implemented by > unicore32, arm, and arm64 architectures and it is documented > at: Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt But why do we need it? Is there any good reason every not to free the initrd / initramfs memory when it is not used? _______________________________________________ linux-riscv mailing list linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv