Re: [this_cpu_xx V4 12/20] Move early initialization of pagesetsout of zone_wait_table_init()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sat Oct 03 2009 - 06:29:43 EST


cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Explicitly initialize the pagesets after the per cpu areas have been
> initialized. This is necessary in order to be able to use per cpu
> operations in later patches.
>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c | 1 +
> arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 1 +
> arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c | 1 +
> arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c | 2 ++
> include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
> mm/page_alloc.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> mm/percpu.c | 2 ++

Hmmm... why not call this function from start_kernel() after calling
setup_per_cpu_areas() instead of modifying every implementation of
setup_per_cpu_areas()?

Thanks.

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tejun
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