linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: don't initialize pgd

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:25:40 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Qian Cai <cai@....pw>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: don't initialize pgd_cache twice

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:32:29AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> When PGD_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE, arm64 uses kmem_cache for allocation of PGD
> memory. That cache was initialized twice: first through
> pgtable_cache_init() alias and then as an override for weak
> pgd_cache_init().
> 
> Remove the alias from pgtable_cache_init() and keep the only pgd_cache
> initialization in pgd_cache_init().
> 
> Fixes: caa841360134 ("x86/mm: Initialize PGD cache during mm initialization")
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Thanks, Mike.

Will