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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-13 12:42:48 -0800
commit031bc5743f158b2d5498294f489e534a31251626 (patch)
tree472c0024f26821a627ec17a2e73a450f450ca4cc /mm/page_alloc.c
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mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable
Now, we have prepared to avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime. So introduce new kernel-parameter to disable debug-pagealloc in boottime, and makes related functions to be disabled in this case. Only non-intuitive part is change of guard page functions. Because guard page is effective only if debug-pagealloc is enabled, turning off according to debug-pagealloc is reasonable thing to do. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e0a39d328ca1..303d38516807 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -425,15 +425,35 @@ static inline void prep_zero_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
unsigned int _debug_guardpage_minorder;
+bool _debug_pagealloc_enabled __read_mostly;
bool _debug_guardpage_enabled __read_mostly;
+static int __init early_debug_pagealloc(char *buf)
+{
+ if (!buf)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (strcmp(buf, "on") == 0)
+ _debug_pagealloc_enabled = true;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("debug_pagealloc", early_debug_pagealloc);
+
static bool need_debug_guardpage(void)
{
+ /* If we don't use debug_pagealloc, we don't need guard page */
+ if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
+ return false;
+
return true;
}
static void init_debug_guardpage(void)
{
+ if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
+ return;
+
_debug_guardpage_enabled = true;
}