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Deferred page initialization allows the boot cpu to initialize a small subset of the system's pages early in boot, with other cpus doing the rest later on. It is, however, problematic to know how many pages the kernel needs during boot. Different modules and kernel parameters may change the requirement, so the boot cpu either initializes too many pages or runs out of memory. To fix that, initialize early pages on demand. This ensures the kernel does the minimum amount of work to initialize pages during boot and leaves the rest to be divided in the multithreaded initialization path (deferred_init_memmap). The on-demand code is permanently disabled using static branching once deferred pages are initialized. After the static branch is changed to false, the overhead is up-to two branch-always instructions if the zone watermark check fails or if rmqueue fails. Sergey Senozhatsky noticed that while deferred pages currently make sense only on NUMA machines (we start one thread per latency node), CONFIG_NUMA is not a requirement for CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT, so that is also must be addressed in the patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment, make deferred_pages static] [pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: fix min() type mismatch warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212164543.26592-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com [pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: use zone_to_nid() in deferred_grow_zone()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214163343.21234-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com [pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: might_sleep warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180306192022.28289-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/spin_lock/spin_lock_irq/ in page_alloc_init_late()] [pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: v5] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309220807.24961-3-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments] [pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: v6] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313182355.17669-3-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180209192216.20509-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Cc: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Cc: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.