Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/3] s390: query dynamic DEBUG_PAGEALLOC setting

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 01/27/2016 02:03 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 01/27/2016 01:47 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> On 01/27/2016 01:41 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>> On 01/27/2016 01:59 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>>>
>>> I think it might be worth also to convert debug_pagealloc_enabled() to be based
>>> on static key, like I did for page_owner [1]. That should help make it possible
>>> to have virtually no overhead when compiling kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>>> without enabling it boot-time. I assume it's one of the goals here?
>>
>> We could do something like that but dump_stack and setup of the initial identity
>> mapping of the kernel as well as the initial page protection are not hot path
>> as far as I can tell. Any other places?
> 
> Well, mostly kernel_map_pages() which is used in page allocation hotpaths.

Right. So indeed, static_key would be a good thing, but certainly an addon patch.