On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:33:10 +0100 Mel Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
> This patch initalises all low memory struct pages and 2G of the highest zone > on each node during memory initialisation if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT > is set. That config option cannot be set but will be available in a later > patch. Parallel initialisation of struct page depends on some features > from memory hotplug and it is necessary to alter alter section annotations. > > ... > > +#ifdef CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT > +#define __defermem_init __meminit > +#define __defer_init __meminit > +#else > +#define __defermem_init > +#define __defer_init __init > +#endif Could we get some comments describing these? What they do, when and where they should be used. I have a suspicion that the naming isn't good, but I didn't spend a lot of time reverse-engineering the intent... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

