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page_ext: introduce boot parameter 'early_page_ext'
authorLi Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:27:14 +0000 (18:27 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 03:26:02 +0000 (20:26 -0700)
commitd32b101a4560a7bd030e116c84dbc321c30b7f53
tree794e5c5ce897f4eaa4133eeb220075e3147929d9
parent127ea6af1c1be25fae964d18a57a32725f7ee762
page_ext: introduce boot parameter 'early_page_ext'

In commit 6db472c2cabd ("Revert "mm: use early_pfn_to_nid in
page_ext_init""), we call page_ext_init() after page_alloc_init_late() to
avoid some panic problem.  It seems that we cannot track early page
allocations in current kernel even if page structure has been initialized
early.

This patch introduces a new boot parameter 'early_page_ext' to resolve
this problem.  If we pass it to the kernel, page_ext_init() will be moved
up and the feature 'deferred initialization of struct pages' will be
disabled to initialize the page allocator early and prevent the panic
problem above.  It can help us to catch early page allocations.  This is
useful especially when we find that the free memory value is not the same
right after different kernel booting.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix section issue by removing __meminitdata]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220825102714.669-1-lizhe.67@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
include/linux/page_ext.h
init/main.c
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/page_ext.c