From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, x86: Do not zero hugetlbfs pages at boot. -v2
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:00:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130403170012.GY29151@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130403140247.GJ16471@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 04:02:47PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 02-04-13 21:43:44, Robin Holt wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > index ca9a7c6..7683f6a 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ int __weak alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
> > while (nr_nodes) {
> > void *addr;
> >
> > - addr = __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(
> > + addr = __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic_notzeroed(
> > NODE_DATA(hstate_next_node_to_alloc(h,
> > &node_states[N_MEMORY])),
> > huge_page_size(h), huge_page_size(h), 0);
>
> Ohh, and powerpc seems to have its own opinion how to allocate huge
> pages. See arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
Do I need to address their allocations? Can I leave that part of the
changes as something powerpc can address if they are affected by this?
Robin
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, x86: Do not zero hugetlbfs pages at boot. -v2
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:00:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130403170012.GY29151@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130403140247.GJ16471@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 04:02:47PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 02-04-13 21:43:44, Robin Holt wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > index ca9a7c6..7683f6a 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ int __weak alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
> > while (nr_nodes) {
> > void *addr;
> >
> > - addr = __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(
> > + addr = __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic_notzeroed(
> > NODE_DATA(hstate_next_node_to_alloc(h,
> > &node_states[N_MEMORY])),
> > huge_page_size(h), huge_page_size(h), 0);
>
> Ohh, and powerpc seems to have its own opinion how to allocate huge
> pages. See arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
Do I need to address their allocations? Can I leave that part of the
changes as something powerpc can address if they are affected by this?
Robin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-03 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 21:50 [PATCH] mm, x86: no zeroing of hugetlbfs pages at boot Cliff Wickman
2013-03-06 21:50 ` Cliff Wickman
2013-03-10 5:55 ` Hillf Danton
2013-03-10 5:55 ` Hillf Danton
2013-03-11 12:32 ` Cliff Wickman
2013-03-11 12:32 ` Cliff Wickman
2013-03-14 8:51 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-14 8:51 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 2:43 ` [PATCH] mm, x86: Do not zero hugetlbfs pages at boot. -v2 Robin Holt
2013-04-03 2:43 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-03 14:00 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 14:00 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 17:21 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-03 17:21 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-04 8:17 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-04 8:17 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 14:02 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 14:02 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 17:00 ` Robin Holt [this message]
2013-04-03 17:00 ` Robin Holt
2013-04-04 8:08 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-04 8:08 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-04 0:17 ` [PATCH] mm, x86: no zeroing of hugetlbfs pages at boot Simon Jeons
2013-04-04 0:17 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-04 12:16 ` Cliff Wickman
2013-04-04 12:16 ` Cliff Wickman
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