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Message-ID: <20090601130825.GA1422@wotan.suse.de>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:08:25 +0200
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc: mingo@...e.hu, cl@...ux-foundation.com,
torvals@...ux-foundation.org, mpm@...enic.com, yinghai@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: call vfs_caches_init_early() later in the boot sequence
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:29:25PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
>
> There's no need to call vfs_caches_init_early() before kmem_cache_init(). All
> we have to do is make sure we don't attempt to use the bootmem allocator after
> we've called mem_init().
Hmm, but you'd want to be able to allocate > MAX_ORDER areas in the linear
KVA, which the page allocator cannot do. So this is just going to silently
truncate hash table size. Nack on this one.
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvals@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> ---
> fs/dcache.c | 2 +-
> fs/inode.c | 2 +-
> init/main.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
> index ee60ce4..6c48ba1 100644
> --- a/fs/dcache.c
> +++ b/fs/dcache.c
> @@ -2255,7 +2255,7 @@ static void __init dcache_init_early(void)
> sizeof(struct hlist_head),
> dhash_entries,
> 13,
> - HASH_EARLY,
> + 0,
> &d_hash_shift,
> &d_hash_mask,
> 0);
> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> index 0571983..92379c8 100644
> --- a/fs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/inode.c
> @@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ void __init inode_init_early(void)
> sizeof(struct hlist_head),
> ihash_entries,
> 14,
> - HASH_EARLY,
> + 0,
> &i_hash_shift,
> &i_hash_mask,
> 0);
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 5a19578..f6bd51f 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -588,7 +588,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
> * kmem_cache_init()
> */
> pidhash_init();
> - vfs_caches_init_early();
> /*
> * Set up kernel memory allocators
> */
> @@ -658,6 +657,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
> initrd_start = 0;
> }
> #endif
> + vfs_caches_init_early();
> cpuset_init_early();
> page_cgroup_init();
> enable_debug_pagealloc();
> --
> 1.6.0.4
>
>
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