Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-06-18 Thread Ralph Jones
On Sun Apr 15 2001 - 15:57:52, EST Amit D Chaudhary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory reported before > and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does free around 2 MB. I have found the same thing - that umount /initrd seems to

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-06-18 Thread Ralph Jones
On Sun Apr 15 2001 - 15:57:52, EST Amit D Chaudhary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does free around 2 MB. I have found the same thing - that umount /initrd seems to

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread Scott Murray
On 15 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Amit D Chaudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory > > reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Amit D Chaudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory > reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does > free around 2 MB. > With Scott's patch

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Scott Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Indeed it is. This fix for drivers/block/rd.c (excerpted from 2.4.3-ac6): > This did the trick. I bounced the patch to Linus, too. -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does free around 2 MB. Amit - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread Scott Murray
On 14 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Hello friends, > > I am trying the following setup, and it works beautifully, *except* > that I don't seem to be able to free the ramdisk memory at the end. Heh, sounds familiar, I was in exactly the same situation a month ago. I meant to post something

Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hello friends, I am trying the following setup, and it works beautifully, *except* that I don't seem to be able to free the ramdisk memory at the end. This is using the 2.4.3 stock kernel: I load an initrd in "non-initrd" mode: label single kernel vmlinuz append

Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hello friends, I am trying the following setup, and it works beautifully, *except* that I don't seem to be able to free the ramdisk memory at the end. This is using the 2.4.3 stock kernel: I load an initrd in "non-initrd" mode: label single kernel vmlinuz append

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread Scott Murray
On 14 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Hello friends, I am trying the following setup, and it works beautifully, *except* that I don't seem to be able to free the ramdisk memory at the end. Heh, sounds familiar, I was in exactly the same situation a month ago. I meant to post something about

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does free around 2 MB. Amit - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Scott Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Indeed it is. This fix for drivers/block/rd.c (excerpted from 2.4.3-ac6): This did the trick. I bounced the patch to Linus, too. -hpa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at work, [EMAIL

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Amit D Chaudhary [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does free around 2 MB. With Scott's patch applied,

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread Scott Murray
On 15 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Amit D Chaudhary [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does free