Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Mon Feb 26 11:24:41 EST 2007



On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> One side-effect of this patch is to move the call to free_initrd() much
> later in the init sequence, potentially after other memory management
> code is assuming it's already been freed.

Hmm. No, I don't think that should be a problem. free_initmem() only 
happens at the very, after do_basic_setup() has been run, which includes 
all the initcall stuff.

However, it's an interesting observation. How sure are you that it's this 
commit that triggers it. You say "This seems to be what's triggering ..", 
I'm wondering how firm that is..

		Linus



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