Re: [PATCH 03/34] mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:52:57AM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> > What's surprising is that it worked for the zone stats as it appears
> > that calling zone_reclaimable() from that context should also have
> > broken. Did anything change recently that would have avoided the
> > zone->pageset dereference in zone_reclaimable() before?
> 
> It appears that zone_pcp_init() was already setting zone->pageset to
> &boot_pageset, via paging_init():
> 

/me slaps self

Of course.

> > The easiest option would be to not call show_mem from arch code until
> > after the pagesets are setup.
> 
> Since no other arches seem to do show_mem earily during boot like metag,
> and doing so doesn't really add much value, I'm happy to remove it
> anyway.
> 

Thanks. Can I assume you'll merge such a patch or should I roll one?

> However could your change break other things and need fixing anyway?
> 

Not that I'm aware of. There would have to be a node-based stat that has
meaning that early in boot to have an effect. If one happened to added
then it would need fixing but until then the complexity is unnecessary.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs