mm, page_owner: don't grab zone->lock for init_pages_in_zone()
init_pages_in_zone() is run under zone->lock, which means a long lock time and disabled interrupts on large machines. This is currently not an issue since it runs early in boot, but a later patch will change that. However, like other pfn scanners, we don't actually need zone->lock even when other cpus are running. The only potentially dangerous operation here is reading bogus buddy page owner due to race, and we already know how to handle that. The worst that can happen is that we skip some early allocated pages, which should not affect the debugging power of page_owner noticeably. Change-Id: I4001d90de75c40229023cb2ed56233a15e2051fa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720134029.25268-4-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Cc: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git Git-commit: 10903027948d768d9639b31e9a555802e2dabafc Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Prakash Gupta <guptap@codeaurora.org>
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