Who is 'Freeing init memory ...'

[Woody Wu]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:41:39AM +0200, Belisko Marek wrote:
> 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);

Yes, thank you very much!  Now I want to disable the 'Freeing' behavior
to reduce boot time, is there a kernel config or cmdline option? I am
not sure if I can disable CONFIG_HIGHMEM to archive this purpose.

> 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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