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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2016-03-15 14:56:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-15 16:55:16 -0700
commit7dd80b8af0bcd705a9ef2fa272c082882616a499 (patch)
tree75048a0e7ff2648c59b1a23640e202653fa1aa27 /Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt
parent60f30350fd69a3e4d5f0f45937d3274c22565134 (diff)
mm, page_owner: convert page_owner_inited to static key
CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER attempts to impose negligible runtime overhead when enabled during compilation, but not actually enabled during runtime by boot param page_owner=on. This overhead can be further reduced using the static key mechanism, which this patch does. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt
index 8f3ce9b3aa11..ffff1439076a 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt
@@ -28,10 +28,11 @@ with page owner and page owner is disabled in runtime due to no enabling
boot option, runtime overhead is marginal. If disabled in runtime, it
doesn't require memory to store owner information, so there is no runtime
memory overhead. And, page owner inserts just two unlikely branches into
-the page allocator hotpath and if it returns false then allocation is
-done like as the kernel without page owner. These two unlikely branches
-would not affect to allocation performance. Following is the kernel's
-code size change due to this facility.
+the page allocator hotpath and if not enabled, then allocation is done
+like as the kernel without page owner. These two unlikely branches should
+not affect to allocation performance, especially if the static keys jump
+label patching functionality is available. Following is the kernel's code
+size change due to this facility.
- Without page owner
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