From: "Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] initramfs with digital signature protection
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:16:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALLzPKYhmkyAobun4FhJv55ZpgOXg=fESWKvtfVpVeWR9jp88g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22d54b6d-6342-4826-bb93-c9fc46f2041a@email.android.com>
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:41 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> The cleanup is not a umount, it is actually a tree walk unlinking the contents.
>
Please see that umounting ramfs releases the memory.
There was no forced cleanup.
"cp" copied about 2GB of content.
After umounting we got 2GB back to free RAM...
kds@kds:~$ sudo mount -t ramfs testramfs /test
kds@kds:~$ sudo cp -r /usr/ /test
kds@kds:~$ du -sm /test
2154 /test
kds@kds:~$ free
total used free shared
buffers cached
Mem: 8058600 7855780 202820 0 24768 4819136
-/+ buffers/cache: 3011876 5046724
Swap: 0 0 0
kds@kds:~$ sudo umount /test
kds@kds:~$ free
total used free shared
buffers cached
Mem: 8058600 5644864 2413736 0 25268 2623956
-/+ buffers/cache: 2995640 5062960
Swap: 0 0 0
The same happens also with tmpfs.
- Dmitry
> "Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:04 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>> On 02/05/2013 02:09 PM, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It should not be like that. Actually when pre-init exits, cleanup
>>code
>>>> umount tmpfs, which in turn cleanups the RAM.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn't quite... the rootfs is permanent. This is also only one
>>usage
>>> mode: there are quite a few Linux systems running directly out of
>>initramfs.
>>>
>>
>>rootfs is not permanent when it is ramfs. It is cleaned up on switch
>>root.
>>It is easy to find out that it is empty by mounting : mount -t ramfs
>>rootfs /mnt/
>>
>>In the case of running from normal storage, of course, there is
>>ridicules remove the content.
>>
>>- Dmitry
>>
>>
>>> -hpa
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
>>> I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
>>>
>
> --
> Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-08 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-05 12:34 [RFC 0/2] initramfs with digital signature protection Dmitry Kasatkin
2013-02-05 12:34 ` [RFC 1/2] export unpack_to_rootfs Dmitry Kasatkin
2013-02-05 16:48 ` Peter Jones
2013-02-05 17:16 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-02-08 8:30 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-02-05 12:34 ` [RFC 2/2] initramfs with digital signature protection Dmitry Kasatkin
2013-02-05 18:03 ` Peter Jones
2013-02-05 20:08 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-02-05 22:03 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-02-05 18:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-02-05 18:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-02-05 18:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-02-05 21:55 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-04-05 13:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-08 19:43 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-04-08 20:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-08 20:17 ` Josh Boyer
2013-04-09 14:38 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-10 3:07 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-04-10 19:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-10 21:05 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-04-11 8:08 ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2013-04-11 14:52 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-12 11:54 ` Mimi Zohar
[not found] ` <CACE9dm-GZpjco8u6jNxLQpYA8LYSeoVjsyyRXVwxXHzjO-LvGw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-11 14:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-11 18:42 ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2013-04-11 21:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-12 12:03 ` Mimi Zohar
2013-02-05 20:36 ` Peter Jones
2013-02-05 22:09 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-02-06 5:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-06 8:01 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-02-06 16:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-08 9:16 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry [this message]
2013-02-08 15:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-08 16:24 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-02-08 16:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-07 17:05 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-02-08 8:34 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-02-08 13:27 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2013-02-11 21:59 ` Vivek Goyal
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