From: chris@mshome.net   
      
   On 16/04/2024 at 18:19, Lew Pitcher wrote:   
   >   
   > Glad to hear that. Apparently, the inclusion of disk drivers no longer   
   > makes a significant difference on the end resident size of the kernel.   
   >   
   > I'd be interested to know what your dmesg says about the kernel memory   
   > Would you be willing to post the results of   
   >    dmesg | grep 'Memory:'   
   > and   
   >    dmesg | grep 'Freeing unused kernel memory:'   
   > under all three kernels?   
   >   
   > That would tell us directly (rather than by implication) how much memory   
   > each kernel takes.   
   >   
   >   
   dmsg-memory-generic-6.6.27   
   [    0.340626] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x00000000-0x00000fff]   
   [    0.340632] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x0009f000-0x0009ffff]   
   [    0.340635] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x000a0000-0x000effff]   
   [    0.340636] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x000f0000-0x000fffff]   
   [    0.362893] Memory: 3029884K/3145272K available (22528K kernel code,   
   3434K rwdata, 7724K rodata, 3728K init, 4868K bss, 115128K reserved, 0K   
   cma-reserved)   
   [    0.437814] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 64K   
   [    1.171765] Freeing initrd memory: 9420K   
   [    6.295892] Freeing unused decrypted memory: 2028K   
   [    6.311805] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 3728K   
   [    6.342365] Freeing unused kernel image (rodata/data gap) memory: 468K   
      
   dmsg-memory-huge-6.6.27   
   [    0.028558] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x00000000-0x00000fff]   
   [    0.028561] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x0009f000-0x0009ffff]   
   [    0.028563] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x000a0000-0x000effff]   
   [    0.028564] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x000f0000-0x000fffff]   
   [    0.052446] Memory: 3035204K/3145272K available (24576K kernel code,   
   3645K rwdata, 8764K rodata, 4064K init, 3508K bss, 109808K reserved, 0K   
   cma-reserved)   
   [    0.146341] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 68K   
   [    6.019644] Freeing unused decrypted memory: 2028K   
   [    6.032489] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 4064K   
   [    6.075487] Freeing unused kernel image (rodata/data gap) memory: 1476K   
      
   dmsg-memory-huge-6.8.6   
   [    0.028539] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x00000000-0x00000fff]   
   [    0.028543] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x0009f000-0x0009ffff]   
   [    0.028544] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x000a0000-0x000effff]   
   [    0.028545] PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem   
   0x000f0000-0x000fffff]   
   [    0.051606] Memory: 3035204K/3145272K available (24576K kernel code,   
   3653K rwdata, 8864K rodata, 4092K init, 3404K bss, 109808K reserved, 0K   
   cma-reserved)   
   [    0.153368] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 68K   
   [    5.951739] Freeing unused decrypted memory: 2028K   
   [    5.967211] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 4092K   
   [    5.998271] Freeing unused kernel image (rodata/data gap) memory: 1376K   
      
   Looks to me as though it frees everything unused.   
      
      
      
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