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From: Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	"linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 6/6] RISC-V: Implement keepinitrd kernel parameter
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:05:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MN2PR04MB606129EF849F6AD914047D388D660@MN2PR04MB6061.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190213055510.GA5725@infradead.org>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:25 AM
> To: Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>; Anup Patel
> <anup@brainfault.org>; Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>; Albert Ou
> <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>; Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>;
> linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] RISC-V: Implement keepinitrd kernel parameter
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 03:43:06AM +0000, Anup Patel wrote:
> > Sure, the keepinitrd=0 by default so it will always free-up initrd by default.
> > Please look at v3 patchset.
> >
> > Of course, we need separate patch to update documentation of
> keepinitrd.
> 
> No, we need to not just blindly copy what arm did for historic reasons unless
> we have a very good reason of our own.
> 
> In addition to not having a real need for any of this in a new setup, it also is
> duplicated by the retain_initrd parameter which is implemented in generic
> code - and for that the commit message at least has a rationale related to
> kexec:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/7/15

Sure, I will re-work this patch to always free-up initrd.

Regards,
Anup

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-19 13:27 [PATCH v2 0/6] Fixmap support and MM cleanups Anup Patel
2019-01-19 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] RISC-V: Move free_initrd_mem() to kernel/setup.c Anup Patel
2019-01-19 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] RISC-V: Setup init_mm before parse_early_param() Anup Patel
2019-02-12  7:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-19 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] RISC-V: Move setup_bootmem() to mm/init.c Anup Patel
2019-01-19 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] RISC-V: Move setup_vm() " Anup Patel
2019-01-19 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] RISC-V: Implement compile-time fixed mappings Anup Patel
2019-02-12  7:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-19 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] RISC-V: Implement keepinitrd kernel parameter Anup Patel
2019-02-12  7:08   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-12 10:23     ` Anup Patel
2019-02-12 10:37       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-02-12 13:53         ` Anup Patel
2019-02-12 18:45       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-13  3:43         ` Anup Patel
2019-02-13  5:55           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-13  6:05             ` Anup Patel [this message]
2019-02-12 21:59   ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-02-11  6:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Fixmap support and MM cleanups Anup Patel
2019-02-12 23:15 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-02-13  8:21   ` Anup Patel
2019-02-13  9:20     ` Johan Hovold
2019-02-14  0:37     ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-02-14  8:28       ` Anup Patel

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