Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753570AbaFTQD4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:03:56 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f178.google.com ([209.85.213.178]:42617 "EHLO mail-ig0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752022AbaFTQDz (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:03:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <53A3C177.1000905@zytor.com> References: <1403230336-10444-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <53A3B8B7.70806@zytor.com> <53A3C177.1000905@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:03:54 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4N7Sn9sugDA7YJ5AuXS-jdjUJQc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] initramfs: Support initrd that is bigger then 2G. From: Yinghai Lu To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Tetsuo Handa , "Daniel M. Weeks" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > For each of those transfers, we don't free the source memory until the > very end. We could free that memory as we process the input, requiring > less total memory. Yes, that would be nice enhancement. Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/