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Message-ID: <4AC7279B.3050901@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:29:47 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: cl@...ux-foundation.org
CC: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, mingo@...e.hu,
rusty@...tcorp.com.au, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V4 12/20] Move early initialization of pagesets
out of zone_wait_table_init()
cl@...ux-foundation.org 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@....ul.ie>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
>
> ---
> 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.
--
tejun
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