From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@intel.com>

It doesn't make much sense to use the atomic SetPageReserved at init time
when we are using memset to clear the memory and manipulating the page
flags via simple "&=" and "|=" operations in __init_single_page.

This patch adds a non-atomic version __SetPageReserved that can be used
during page init and shows about a 10% improvement in initialization times
on the systems I have available for testing.

I tried adding a bit of documentation based on commit <f1dd2cd13c4> ("mm,
memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online").

Ideally the reserved flag should be set earlier since there is a brief
window where the page is initialization via __init_single_page and we have
not set the PG_Reserved flag. I'm leaving that for a future patch set as
that will require a more significant refactor.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@intel.com>
---
 include/linux/page-flags.h |    1 +
 mm/page_alloc.c            |   13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 0e95ca63375a..daee3ea2d1ed 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ static inline void page_init_poison(struct page *page, 
size_t size)
 
 PAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
        __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
+       __SETPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
 PAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_NO_TAIL)
        __CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_NO_TAIL)
        __SETPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_NO_TAIL)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 05e983f42316..f2602021032f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1231,7 +1231,8 @@ void __meminit reserve_bootmem_region(phys_addr_t start, 
phys_addr_t end)
                        /* Avoid false-positive PageTail() */
                        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
 
-                       SetPageReserved(page);
+                       /* no need for atomic set_bit at init time */
+                       __SetPageReserved(page);
                }
        }
 }
@@ -5517,8 +5518,16 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int 
nid, unsigned long zone,
 not_early:
                page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
                __init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
+
+               /*
+                * Mark page reserved as it will need to wait for onlining
+                * phase for it to be fully associated with a zone.
+                *
+                * We can use the non-atomic __set_bit operation for setting
+                * the flag as we are still initializing the pages.
+                */
                if (context == MEMMAP_HOTPLUG)
-                       SetPageReserved(page);
+                       __SetPageReserved(page);
 
                /*
                 * Mark the block movable so that blocks are reserved for

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