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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:22:20 +0200
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To: Prabhu Chawandi <prabhu.chavandi@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: increasing memory alloted for 'init' during kernel boot.
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On 08/31/2010 08:49 AM, Prabhu Chawandi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    Whenever the kernel starts booting, I am getting the bellow log :
> 
> Memory: 110080k/262144k available (2566k kernel code, 151952k
> reserved, 561k data, 15328k init, 0k highmem).
> 
> For 'init' on what bases this amount of memory is decided ?
> 
> Anyways I can alter it?

Nope. It's code and data inside .init, .exit and similar sections. Those
are marked by __init, __exit etc. in the code. This memory is freed
after the kernel is up and running, since this memory (code and data) is
not needed anymore.

regards,
-- 
js
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