Re: [PATCH v2] mm: don't schedule deferred kernel page table freeing while booting

[Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>]

On 9/24/26 02:23, Mikhail Gavrilov wrote:
> Keep putting the table on the list, but don't schedule the work while
> the system is still booting.  The next kernel page table freed after
> boot schedules it, and the work then frees the early table too, after
> the same IOMMU flush as any other.  If no kernel page table is freed
> after boot, the ones freed during boot stay on the list.

There seems to be an awful lot of chit chat about how and when the
boot-time tables might get freed. Like:

> So on this box the early tables wait until the first module is
> loaded, and no separate drain is needed.
Wouldn't a "separate drain" be all of 5 lines of code?

/* Take care of deferred freeing from boot: */
static __init int free_boot_kernel_pgtables(void)
{
	schedule_work(&kernel_pgtable_work.work);
}
late_initcall(free_boot_kernel_pgtables);

Then we don't have to reason about it at all.