Re: [PATCH] mm: make CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT depends on !FLATMEM explicitly

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On 5/23/2016 11:22 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
On Mon 23-05-16 09:54:31, Yang Shi wrote:
Per the suggestion from Michal Hocko [1], CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
should be incompatible with FLATMEM, make this explicitly in Kconfig.

I guess the changelog could benefit from some clarification. What
do you think about the following:

"
DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT requires some ordering wrt other
initialization operations, e.g. page_ext_init has to happen after the
whole memmap is initialized properly. For SPARSEMEM this requires to
wait for page_alloc_init_late. Other memory models (e.g. flatmem) might
have different initialization layouts (page_ext_init_flatmem). Currently
DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG which in turn
	depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
	depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG

and X86_64_ACPI_NUMA depends on NUMA which in turn disable FLATMEM
memory model:
config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
	def_bool y
	depends on X86_32 && !NUMA

so FLATMEM is ruled out via dependency maze. Be explicit and disable
FLATMEM for DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT so that we do not reintroduce
subtle initialization bugs
"

Thanks a lot. It sounds way better. Will address in V2.

Yang



[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160523073157.GD2278@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 2664c11..22fa818 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	default n
 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+	depends on !FLATMEM
 	help
 	  Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
 	  single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
--
2.0.2


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