On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:32:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > That is, this is boot time only, right? clone() would return -ENOMEM, as > it's part of the normal page-table copy.
Yes, the pre-allocation happens shortly after the buddy allocator took
over from bootmem. I don't quite get what clone() has to do with it.
Joerg
