Skip to content
  • Joonsoo Kim's avatar
    mm/debug-pagealloc: prepare boottime configurable on/off · e30825f1
    Joonsoo Kim authored
    
    
    Until now, debug-pagealloc needs extra flags in struct page, so we need to
    recompile whole source code when we decide to use it.  This is really
    painful, because it takes some time to recompile and sometimes rebuild is
    not possible due to third party module depending on struct page.  So, we
    can't use this good feature in many cases.
    
    Now, we have the page extension feature that allows us to insert extra
    flags to outside of struct page.  This gets rid of third party module
    issue mentioned above.  And, this allows us to determine if we need extra
    memory for this page extension in boottime.  With these property, we can
    avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime with low computational overhead in
    the kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.  This will help our
    development process greatly.
    
    This patch is the preparation step to achive above goal.  debug-pagealloc
    originally uses extra field of struct page, but, after this patch, it will
    use field of struct page_ext.  Because memory for page_ext is allocated
    later than initialization of page allocator in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, we should
    disable debug-pagealloc feature temporarily until initialization of
    page_ext.  This patch implements this.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
    Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
    Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    e30825f1