linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

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Date:	Mon, 25 May 2009 14:12:25 +0200
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, mpm@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:04:20PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 02:37:59PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote:
> > > > The bootmem allocations of course are required because some hashes may
> > > > need to be larger than MAX_ORDER without using vmalloc.
> > > >
> > > > kmem_cache_init (and mem_init, partially) sets up the kernel memory
> > > > allocators...
> > > 
> > > Which comment are you talking about? The "setup kernel memory
> > > allocators" one? Yeah, I should probably move it couple of lines down.
>  
> On Mon, 25 May 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Yes, just that one.
> 
> And oh, we probably want to do this too while at it. Nick?
> 
> >From b211497261670ff6f9af6b8b0fab429e848ccc87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:01:35 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] vmalloc: use kzalloc() instead of alloc_bootmem()
> 
> We can call vmalloc_init() after kmem_cache_init() and use kzalloc() instead of
> the bootmem allocator when initializing vmalloc data structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> ---
>  init/main.c  |    2 +-
>  mm/vmalloc.c |    3 +--
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index fb0e004..766194c 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -585,13 +585,13 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>  		   __stop___param - __start___param,
>  		   &unknown_bootoption);
>  	pidhash_init();
> -	vmalloc_init();
>  	vfs_caches_init_early();
>  	/*
>  	 * Set up kernel memory allocators
>  	 */
>  	mem_init();
>  	kmem_cache_init();
> +	vmalloc_init();

vmalloc won't work fully without slab and page allocators anyway, so this
is conceptually a bugfix I think. Ack.
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