Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: remove duplicate initialization for early_kmem_cache_node_alloc()

[김상윤 <sangyun.kim@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 2:23 AM Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sun, 7 Apr 2024, David Rientjes wrote:
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> > What user observable effect does this have given it would only make a
> > difference when slab_state == DOWN?
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> It reduces the kernel text size and removes a line from source code.
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Yes, it only affects when slab_state == DOWN.
early_kmem_cache_node_alloc() is called exclusively
when the slab_state == DOWN, by init_kmem_cache_nodes().