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authorLi Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>2022-08-25 12:27:14 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-09-12 05:26:02 +0200
commitc4f20f1479c456d9dd1c1e6d8bf956a25de742dc (patch)
tree794e5c5ce897f4eaa4133eeb220075e3147929d9 /mm/page_alloc.c
parents390/hugetlb: switch to generic version of follow_huge_pud() (diff)
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page_ext: introduce boot parameter 'early_page_ext'
In commit 2f1ee0913ce5 ("Revert "mm: use early_pfn_to_nid in page_ext_init""), we call page_ext_init() after page_alloc_init_late() to avoid some panic problem. It seems that we cannot track early page allocations in current kernel even if page structure has been initialized early. This patch introduces a new boot parameter 'early_page_ext' to resolve this problem. If we pass it to the kernel, page_ext_init() will be moved up and the feature 'deferred initialization of struct pages' will be disabled to initialize the page allocator early and prevent the panic problem above. It can help us to catch early page allocations. This is useful especially when we find that the free memory value is not the same right after different kernel booting. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix section issue by removing __meminitdata] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220825102714.669-1-lizhe.67@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 48c65bf3cb29..1d4278115d71 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ defer_init(int nid, unsigned long pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
{
static unsigned long prev_end_pfn, nr_initialised;
+ if (early_page_ext_enabled())
+ return false;
/*
* prev_end_pfn static that contains the end of previous zone
* No need to protect because called very early in boot before smp_init.