On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:21:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > It seems all 25 linker scripts in the current bk tree are suffering from
> > this.  Which mean with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD enabled first free_initrd_mem
> > may be called to free the initram disk and just a little later
> > free_initmem will try to free the entire range again, so either the
> > linker scripts would need fixing or free_initrd_mem has become obsolete.
> > 
> 
> Hard call.  I'd be 51% inclined to change the linker scripts so that the
> freeing of the initram disk happens explicitly, rather than having it
> magically hidden inside the main initmem segment.
> 
> Any objections from anyone?
> 
> (cc'ed Adrian, who might be interested in raising a patch ;))

I've cooked that already.  Let me check if I can dig it up from here - I'm
supposed to be on vacation ;-)

  Ralf

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