Re: Jettisoning initialization code...
Tom Dyas (tdyas@hardees.rutgers.edu)
Sun, 26 Jan 97 15:03:05 EST
> There was some talk not too long ago about freeing up memory used by
> functions and data that are only referenced during initialization by
> grouping them together into their own ELF section that could be
> discarded after setup was complete. I was looking at the Sparc stuff in
> 2.1.23 to see how this was done.
>
> I probably missed it, but where in the code do the text.init and
> data.init sections get released?
grep free_initmem arch/{sparc,i386}/kernel/*.c
The SPARC stuff depends on a script to ld to setup some of the symbols
that point to the start and end of the init sections. See
arch/sparc/vmlinux.lds for more information.
Tom