Hi Amar,

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Amarnath Revanna
[off-list ref] wrote:

On the other hand, any other kernel module that you load using insmod or
modprobe comes after this stage, wherein the kernel was already booted, and
hence, no memory area of __init will ever be freed.

Modules are loaded with vmalloc, right?

Could you explain why the kernel can't free those __init symbols
from memory also in this case?

Thanks,
Ezequiel.