On 8/26/22 06:23, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:27:14 +0800 lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> From: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> In 'commit 2f1ee0913ce5 ("Revert "mm: use early_pfn_to_nid in page_ext_init"")', >> we call page_ext_init() after page_alloc_init_late() to avoid some panic >> problem. It seems that we cannot track early page allocations in current >> kernel even if page structure has been initialized early. >> >> This patch introduce a new boot parameter 'early_page_ext' to resolve this >> problem. If we pass it to kernel, function page_ext_init() will be moved >> up and feature 'deferred initialization of struct pages' will be disabled >> to initialize the page allocator early and prevent from the panic problem >> above. It can help us to catch early page allocations. This is useful >> especially when we find that the free memory value is not the same right >> after different kernel booting. >> > > WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: early_page_ext_enabled (section: .text.unlikely) -> early_page_ext (section: .meminit.data) > WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: early_page_ext_enabled (section: .text.unlikely) -> early_page_ext (section: .meminit.data) Hm it's a very small static inline, shouldn't exist separately anywhere. Maybe it's due to that new debug info level thing? Would this work instead? ----8<---- diff --git a/include/linux/page_ext.h b/include/linux/page_ext.h index 884282a7f03a..4bf4e58cf2d4 100644 --- a/include/linux/page_ext.h +++ b/include/linux/page_ext.h @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ extern bool early_page_ext; extern unsigned long page_ext_size; extern void pgdat_page_ext_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat); -static inline bool early_page_ext_enabled(void) +static inline bool __meminit early_page_ext_enabled(void) { return early_page_ext; }