Re: [PATCH] mm: make __paginginit based on CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG

From: Pavel Tatashin
Date: Tue Jul 31 2018 - 10:44:32 EST


On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:43 AM Pavel Tatashin
<pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Oscar,
>
> There is a simpler way. I will send it out in a bit. No need for your first function, only setup_usemap() needs to be changed to __ref.

I meant first patch not function :)

>
> Pavel
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:42 AM Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 08:49:11AM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > > Hi Oscar,
> > >
> > > Have you looked into replacing __paginginit via __meminit ? What is
> > > the reason to keep both?
> > Hi Pavel,
> >
> > Actually, thinking a bit more about this, it might make sense to remove
> > __paginginit altogether and keep only __meminit.
> > Looking at the original commit, I think that it was put as a way to abstract it.
> >
> > After the patchset [1] has been applied, only two functions marked as __paginginit
> > remain, so it will be less hassle to replace that with __meminit.
> >
> > I will send a v2 tomorrow to be applied on top of [1].
> >
> > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10548861/
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Oscar Salvador
> > SUSE L3
> >