Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Dec 12 2012 - 07:48:08 EST


On Wed 12-12-12 12:23:29, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 12-12-12 18:44:13, Xishi Qiu wrote:
[...]
> > Hi Michal,
> >
> > __initcall functions will be called in
> > start_kernel()
> > rest_init() // -> slab is already
> > kernel_init()
> > kernel_init_freeable()
> > do_basic_setup()
> > do_initcalls()
> >
> > and setup_hugepagesz() will be called in
> > start_kernel()
> > parse_early_param() // -> before mm_init() -> kmem_cache_init()
> >
> > Is this right?
>
> Yes this is right. I just noticed that kmem_cache_init_late is an __init
> function as well and didn't realize it is called directly. Sorry about
> the confusion.
> Anyway I still think it would be a better idea to move the call into the
> hugetlb_cgroup_create callback where it is more logical IMO but now that
> I'm looking at other controllers (blk and kmem.tcp) they all do this from
> init calls as well. So it doesn't make sense to have hugetlb behave
> differently.
>
> So
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

Ohh, and this deserves to be backported to stable (since 3.6).
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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