Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init

[Michal Hocko <mhocko-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed 12-12-12 12:23:29, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 12-12-12 18:44:13, Xishi Qiu wrote:
[...]
> > Hi Michal,
> > 
> > __initcall functions will be called in
> > start_kernel()
> > 	rest_init()  // -> slab is already
> > 		kernel_init()
> > 			kernel_init_freeable()
> > 				do_basic_setup()
> > 					do_initcalls()
> > 
> > and setup_hugepagesz() will be called in
> > start_kernel()
> > 	parse_early_param()  // -> before mm_init() -> kmem_cache_init()
> > 
> > Is this right?
> 
> Yes this is right. I just noticed that kmem_cache_init_late is an __init
> function as well and didn't realize it is called directly. Sorry about
> the confusion.
> Anyway I still think it would be a better idea to move the call into the
> hugetlb_cgroup_create callback where it is more logical IMO but now that
> I'm looking at other controllers (blk and kmem.tcp) they all do this from
> init calls as well. So it doesn't make sense to have hugetlb behave
> differently.
> 
> So
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>

Ohh, and this deserves to be backported to stable (since 3.6).
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs