linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early boot SLAB for 2.6.31

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:58:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hannes@...xchg.org, mingo@...e.hu, mpm@...enic.com,
	npiggin@...e.de, yinghai@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early boot SLAB for 2.6.31

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

>  	setup_nr_cpu_ids();
>  	smp_prepare_boot_cpu();	/* arch-specific boot-cpu hooks */
>
> +	build_all_zonelists();
> +	page_alloc_init();
> +
> +	printk(KERN_NOTICE "Kernel command line: %s\n", boot_command_line);
> +	parse_early_param();
> +	parse_args("Booting kernel", static_command_line, __start___param,
> +		   __stop___param - __start___param,
> +		   &unknown_bootoption);
> +	/*
> +	 * These use large bootmem allocations and must precede
> +	 * kmem_cache_init()
> +	 */
> +	pidhash_init();
> +	vfs_caches_init_early();
> +	/*
> +	 * Set up kernel memory allocators
> +	 */
> +	mem_init();
> +	kmem_cache_init();
> +	vmalloc_init();

Good they are all together. Maybe we can come up with an mm_init()?

> @@ -603,7 +616,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>  	/* init some links before init_ISA_irqs() */
>  	early_irq_init();
>  	init_IRQ();
> -	pidhash_init();
>  	init_timers();
>  	hrtimers_init();
>  	softirq_init();
> @@ -645,14 +657,10 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>  		initrd_start = 0;
>  	}
>  #endif
> -	vmalloc_init();
> -	vfs_caches_init_early();
>  	cpuset_init_early();
>  	page_cgroup_init();
> -	mem_init();
>  	enable_debug_pagealloc();
>  	cpu_hotplug_init();
> -	kmem_cache_init();
>  	kmemtrace_init();
>  	debug_objects_mem_init();
>  	idr_init_cache();

Therefore potential breakage is in cpusets, hotplug and control groups.
Have any of these been tested with these patches? NUMA?

> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 5e805a6..c1815a6 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2557,13 +2557,16 @@ static struct kmem_cache *create_kmalloc_cache(struct kmem_cache *s,
>  	if (gfp_flags & SLUB_DMA)
>  		flags = SLAB_CACHE_DMA;
>
> -	down_write(&slub_lock);
> +	/*
> +	 * This function is called with IRQs disabled during early-boot on
> +	 * single CPU so there's no need to take slub_lock here.
> +	 */
>  	if (!kmem_cache_open(s, gfp_flags, name, size, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,

This function is also called later when kmalloc caches are
created on demand.
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