From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com (aserp1040.oracle.com [141.146.126.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3wKJBb6LnZzDqFR for ; Sat, 6 May 2017 03:03:35 +1000 (AEST) From: Pavel Tatashin To: 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, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net Subject: [v3 8/9] powerpc: teach platforms not to zero struct pages memory Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 13:03:15 -0400 Message-Id: <1494003796-748672-9-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <1494003796-748672-1-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> References: <1494003796-748672-1-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , If we are using deferred struct page initialization feature, most of "struct page"es are getting initialized after other CPUs are started, and hence we are benefiting from doing this job in parallel. However, we are still zeroing all the memory that is allocated for "struct pages" using the boot CPU. This patch solves this problem, by deferring zeroing "struct pages" to only when they are initialized on PowerPC platforms. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson --- arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c index d42c6b3..c381bd7 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node) if (vmemmap_populated(start, page_size)) continue; - p = vmemmap_alloc_block(page_size, node, true); + p = vmemmap_alloc_block(page_size, node, VMEMMAP_ZERO); if (!p) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.1