linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: make __paginginit based on CONFIG_MEMORY

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:45:04 +0200
From:   osalvador@...hadventures.net
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     mhocko@...e.com, vbabka@...e.cz, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        pasha.tatashin@...cle.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, mgorman@...e.de,
        jrdr.linux@...il.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: make __paginginit based on CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG

From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>

__pagininit macro is being used to mark functions for:

a) Functions that we do not need to keep once the system is fully
   initialized with regard to memory.
b) Functions that will be needed for the memory-hotplug code,
   and because of that we need to keep them after initialization.

Right now, the condition to choose between one or the other is based on
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, but I think that this should be changed to be based
on CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG.

The reason behind this is that it can very well be that we have CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
enabled, but not CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG, and thus, we will not need the
functions marked as __paginginit to stay around, since no
memory-hotplug code will call them.

Although the amount of freed bytes is not that big, I think it will
become more clear what __paginginit is used for.

Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
---
 mm/internal.h | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 33c22754d282..c9170b4f7699 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -392,10 +392,11 @@ static inline struct page *mem_map_next(struct page *iter,
 /*
  * FLATMEM and DISCONTIGMEM configurations use alloc_bootmem_node,
  * so all functions starting at paging_init should be marked __init
- * in those cases. SPARSEMEM, however, allows for memory hotplug,
- * and alloc_bootmem_node is not used.
+ * in those cases.
+ * In case that MEMORY_HOTPLUG is enabled, we need to keep those
+ * functions around since they can be called when hot-adding memory.
  */
-#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 #define __paginginit __meminit
 #else
 #define __paginginit __init
-- 
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