how to free bootmem-allocated memory after system is up?

From: Christopher Friesen
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 17:08:07 EST



I've got some memory that was allocated very early on using the bootmem API.

Later on in the boot sequence I determine that I don't actually need that memory, but the bootmem bitmaps have been torn down.

Is there any way to tell the memory subsystem, "by the way, here are a bunch of pages that you can use that you didn't know about before"?

Chris
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