arch/x86/mm/init.c

#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/system.h>

void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
{
	unsigned long addr = begin;

	if (addr >= end)
		return;

	/*
	 * If debugging page accesses then do not free this memory but
	 * mark them not present - any buggy init-section access will
	 * create a kernel page fault:
	 */
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
	printk(KERN_INFO "debug: unmapping init memory %08lx..%08lx\n",
		begin, PAGE_ALIGN(end));
	set_memory_np(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
#else
	/*
	 * We just marked the kernel text read only above, now that
	 * we are going to free part of that, we need to make that
	 * writeable first.
	 */
	set_memory_rw(begin, (end - begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT);

	printk(KERN_INFO "Freeing %s: %luk freed\n", what, (end - begin) >> 10);

	for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
		ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(addr));
		init_page_count(virt_to_page(addr));
		memset((void *)(addr & ~(PAGE_SIZE-1)),
			POISON_FREE_INITMEM, PAGE_SIZE);
		free_page(addr);
		totalram_pages++;
	}
#endif
}

void free_initmem(void)
{
	free_init_pages("unused kernel memory",
			(unsigned long)(&__init_begin),
			(unsigned long)(&__init_end));
}