Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] provide a generic free_initmem implementation

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Mon Mar 25 2019 - 03:20:36 EST


Any comments on this?

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:41:21PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Many architectures implement free_initmem() in exactly the same or very
> similar way: they wrap the call to free_initmem_default() with sometimes
> different 'poison' parameter.
>
> These patches switch those architectures to use a generic implementation
> that does free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM).
>
> This was inspired by Christoph's patches for free_initrd_mem [1] and I
> shamelessly copied changelog entries from his patches :)
>
> v2: rebased on top of v5.0-rc7 + Christoph's patches for free_initrd_mem
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190213174621.29297-1-hch@xxxxxx/
>
> Mike Rapoport (4):
> init: provide a generic free_initmem implementation
> hexagon: switch over to generic free_initmem()
> init: free_initmem: poison freed init memory
> riscv: switch over to generic free_initmem()
>
> arch/alpha/mm/init.c | 6 ------
> arch/arc/mm/init.c | 8 --------
> arch/c6x/mm/init.c | 5 -----
> arch/h8300/mm/init.c | 6 ------
> arch/hexagon/mm/init.c | 10 ----------
> arch/microblaze/mm/init.c | 5 -----
> arch/nds32/mm/init.c | 5 -----
> arch/nios2/mm/init.c | 5 -----
> arch/openrisc/mm/init.c | 5 -----
> arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 5 -----
> arch/sh/mm/init.c | 5 -----
> arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c | 5 -----
> arch/unicore32/mm/init.c | 5 -----
> arch/xtensa/mm/init.c | 5 -----
> init/main.c | 5 +++++
> 15 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.