From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757321AbeEJMan (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2018 08:30:43 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40680 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756741AbeEJMam (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2018 08:30:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 14:30:39 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Pavel Tatashin Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com, daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-mm@kvack.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com, dennisszhou@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: allow deferred page init for vmemmap only Message-ID: <20180510123039.GF5325@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20180510115356.31164-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180510115356.31164-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu 10-05-18 07:53:56, Pavel Tatashin wrote: [...] > Here is a sample path, where translation is required, that occurs before > mm_init(): > > start_kernel() > trap_init() > setup_cpu_entry_areas() > setup_cpu_entry_area(cpu) > get_cpu_gdt_paddr(cpu) > per_cpu_ptr_to_phys(addr) > pcpu_addr_to_page(addr) > virt_to_page(addr) > pfn_to_page(__pa(addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT) Thanks that helped me to see the problem. On the other hand isn't this a bit of an overkill? AFAICS this affects only NEED_PER_CPU_KM which is !SMP and DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT makes only very limited sense on UP, right? Or do we have more such places? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs