On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:15:21 +0900 Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -858,6 +858,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be 
> entirely omitted.
>                       causing system reset or hang due to sending
>                       INIT from AP to BSP.
>  
> +     disable_debug_pagealloc
> +                     [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
> +                     parameter allows user to disable it at boot time.
> +                     With this parameter, we can avoid allocating huge
> +                     chunk of memory for debug pagealloc and then
> +                     the system will work mostly same with the kernel
> +                     built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
> +

Weren't we going to make this default to "off", require a boot option
to turn debug_pagealloc on?

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