From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [v3 9/9] s390: teach platforms not to zero struct pages memory
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 01:17:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170515231716.GA3314@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0669a945-4540-096e-799a-2d2b3c18abaa@oracle.com>
Hello Pasha,
> Thank you for looking at this patch. I am worried to make the proposed
> change, because, as I understand in this case we allocate memory not for
> "struct page"s but for table that hold them. So, we will change the behavior
> from the current one, where this table is allocated zeroed, but now it won't
> be zeroed.
The page table, if needed, is allocated and populated a couple of lines
above. See the vmem_pte_alloc() call. So my request to include the hunk
below is still valid ;)
> >If you add the hunk below then this is
> >
> >Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
> >index ffe9ba1aec8b..bf88a8b9c24d 100644
> >--- a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
> >+++ b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
> >@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node)
> > if (pte_none(*pt_dir)) {
> > void *new_page;
> >- new_page = vmemmap_alloc_block(PAGE_SIZE, node, true);
> >+ new_page = vmemmap_alloc_block(PAGE_SIZE, node, VMEMMAP_ZERO);
> > if (!new_page)
> > goto out;
> > pte_val(*pt_dir) = __pa(new_page) | pgt_prot;
> >
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-15 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-05 17:03 [v3 0/9] parallelized "struct page" zeroing Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 1/9] sparc64: simplify vmemmap_populate Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 2/9] mm: defining memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 3/9] mm: add "zero" argument to vmemmap allocators Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-13 19:17 ` kbuild test robot
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 4/9] mm: do not zero vmemmap_buf Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 5/9] mm: zero struct pages during initialization Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 6/9] sparc64: teach sparc not to zero struct pages memory Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 7/9] x86: teach x86 " Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 8/9] powerpc: teach platforms " Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 9/9] s390: " Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-08 11:36 ` Heiko Carstens
2017-05-15 18:24 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-15 23:17 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2017-05-16 0:33 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-09 18:12 ` [v3 0/9] parallelized "struct page" zeroing Michal Hocko
2017-05-09 18:54 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-10 7:24 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-10 13:42 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-10 14:57 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-10 15:01 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-10 15:20 ` David Miller
2017-05-11 20:47 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-11 20:59 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-12 16:57 ` David Miller
2017-05-12 17:24 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-12 17:37 ` David Miller
2017-05-16 23:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-05-12 16:56 ` David Miller
2017-05-10 15:19 ` David Miller
2017-05-10 17:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-05-10 18:00 ` David Miller
2017-05-10 21:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-05-11 8:05 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-11 14:35 ` David Miller
2017-05-15 18:12 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-15 19:38 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-15 20:44 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-16 8:36 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-26 16:45 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-29 11:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-30 17:16 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-31 16:31 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-31 16:51 ` David Miller
2017-06-01 3:35 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-06-01 8:46 ` Michal Hocko
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