From dbe67df4ba78c79db547c7864e1120981c144c97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiang Liu Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:02:51 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: David Howells Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Jianguo Wu Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Tang Chen Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Wen Congyang Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm.h | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') 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) { -- cgit v1.2.3