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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2018-08-02 15:58:29 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2018-08-05 22:21:03 +0200
commit6ea2738e0ca0e626c75202fb051c1e88d7a950fa (patch)
treeb715945b050c0883f7aad08f7e21b69f01f96984 /arch/x86/mm/init.c
parentx86/mm/init: Pass unconverted symbol addresses to free_init_pages() (diff)
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x86/mm/init: Add helper for freeing kernel image pages
When chunks of the kernel image are freed, free_init_pages() is used directly. Consolidate the three sites that do this. Also update the string to give an incrementally better description of that memory versus what was there before. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: aarcange@redhat.com Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802225829.FE0E32EA@viggo.jf.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/init.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index cee58a972cb2..bc11dedffc45 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -773,13 +773,22 @@ void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
}
}
+/*
+ * begin/end can be in the direct map or the "high kernel mapping"
+ * used for the kernel image only. free_init_pages() will do the
+ * right thing for either kind of address.
+ */
+void free_kernel_image_pages(void *begin, void *end)
+{
+ free_init_pages("unused kernel image",
+ (unsigned long)begin, (unsigned long)end);
+}
+
void __ref free_initmem(void)
{
e820__reallocate_tables();
- free_init_pages("unused kernel",
- (unsigned long)(&__init_begin),
- (unsigned long)(&__init_end));
+ free_kernel_image_pages(&__init_begin, &__init_end);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD