On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 10:15:44AM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote: > With powerpc moving the page allocator, there are no architectures left > which use the physical allocator after the boot setup: arm, arm64, > s390x and powerpc drain the physical allocator to initialize the page > allocator; and x86 calls setup_vm() to drain the allocator for each of > the tests that allocate memory. Please put the motivation for this change in the commit message. I looked ahead at the next patch to find it, but I'm not sure I agree with it. We should be able to keep the locking even when used early, since we probably need our locking to be something we can use early elsewhere anyway. Thanks, drew
