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authorJiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>2013-07-03 15:02:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-03 16:07:32 -0700
commitdbe67df4ba78c79db547c7864e1120981c144c97 (patch)
tree5dbfb1f416d8099b46921d5ad59f1d8287473564 /include/linux/mm.h
parentmm: change signature of free_reserved_area() to fix building warnings (diff)
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mm: enhance free_reserved_area() to support poisoning memory with zero
Address more review comments from last round of code review. 1) Enhance free_reserved_area() to support poisoning freed memory with pattern '0'. This could be used to get rid of poison_init_mem() on ARM64. 2) A previous patch has disabled memory poison for initmem on s390 by mistake, so restore to the original behavior. 3) Remove redundant PAGE_ALIGN() when calling free_reserved_area(). Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: <sworddragon2@aol.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index be1b96ce0650..083cc0ba2384 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ extern void free_initmem(void);
/*
* Free reserved pages within range [PAGE_ALIGN(start), end & PAGE_MASK)
* into the buddy system. The freed pages will be poisoned with pattern
- * "poison" if it's non-zero.
+ * "poison" if it's within range [0, UCHAR_MAX].
* Return pages freed into the buddy system.
*/
extern unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *start, void *end,
@@ -1348,8 +1348,9 @@ static inline void mark_page_reserved(struct page *page)
/*
* Default method to free all the __init memory into the buddy system.
- * The freed pages will be poisoned with pattern "poison" if it is
- * non-zero. Return pages freed into the buddy system.
+ * The freed pages will be poisoned with pattern "poison" if it's within
+ * range [0, UCHAR_MAX].
+ * Return pages freed into the buddy system.
*/
static inline unsigned long free_initmem_default(int poison)
{