From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Hi,
These patches simplify deferred initialization of the memory map.
Beside nice negative diffstat I measured 3ms (55ms vs 58ms) reduction in
the initialization of deferred pages on single node system with 64GiB of
RAM.
I don't have access to large memory machines, so I'd really appreciate
testing of these patches on them to make sure there's no regression there.
v2 changes:
* fix "sleeping function called from invalid context" bug reported by
kbuild:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/202508251443.f2d9f77f-lkp@intel.com
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250818064615.505641-1-rppt@kernel.org
I pushed the patches to memblock tree for wider testing.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock.git/log/?h=for-next
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (4):
mm/mm_init: use deferred_init_memmap_chunk() in deferred_grow_zone()
mm/mm_init: deferred_init_memmap: use a job per zone
mm/mm_init: drop deferred_init_maxorder()
memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from()
.clang-format | 1 -
include/linux/memblock.h | 22 -----
mm/memblock.c | 64 -------------
mm/mm_init.c | 197 +++++++++++++--------------------------
4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 219 deletions(-)
base-commit: b320789d6883cc00ac78ce83bccbfe7ed58afcf0
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