Who is 'Freeing init memory ...'

Belisko Marek marek.belisko at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 04:41:39 EDT 2013


Hi,

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Woody Wu <narkewoody at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Near the end of kernel startup, there is a message 'Freeing init memory
> ..'. This process on embedded system takes several seconds. After
> searched kernel source, however, I cannot find the same literal text in
> all the .c files.
rgrep 'Freeing' . on kernell source give me a lot of output. I believe
you're looking on arm for that one:
arch/arm/mm/init.c:             printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s memory:
%dK\n", s, size);
So, I want to know, who was printing this message and
> how can I disable the behavior to save some boot time since I don't care
> losting of several hundreds kilo bytes of memory.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> woody
>
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Cheers,

marek

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