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SubjectRE: [PATCH v2 6/6] RISC-V: Implement keepinitrd kernel parameter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Hellwig
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 12:15 AM
> To: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>; Palmer Dabbelt
> <palmer@sifive.com>; Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com>; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>; Albert Ou
> <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>; Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>;
> linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] RISC-V: Implement keepinitrd kernel parameter
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 03:53:21PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> > If it is initramfs (i.e. CPIO image) then contents of CPIO archive are
> > extracted to create a ramfs instance.
> >
> > If it is initrd (i.e. some filesystem image) then RAM block device is
> > created in-place at initrd location. (Please correct me if I am wrong
> > about initrd here).
>
> No. If it is an initrd image we still copy it into the rootfs first, and then load it
> into a ram disk. Take a look at
> init/initramfs.c:populate_rootfs() and
> init/do_mounts_initrd.c:initrd_load().
>
> > So in case of initrd we might not want to free-up the RAM but we can
> > certainly free-up in case of initramfs.
>
> No, in either case we do not need the original initramfs/initrd memory. I
> suspect arm has this as a workaround for some weird legacy boot issue, but I
> can't see any reason why we would not want to free the memory on riscv.

Sure, the keepinitrd=0 by default so it will always free-up initrd by default.
Please look at v3 patchset.

Of course, we need separate patch to update documentation of keepinitrd.

Regards,
Anup

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