From 957949243bac5dc25e2a651f17059f54f184913e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 15:16:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm: make CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT depends on !FLATMEM
 explicitly

Per the suggestion from Michal Hocko [1], DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
requires some ordering wrt other initialization operations, e.g.
page_ext_init has to happen after the whole memmap is initialized
properly.

For SPARSEMEM this requires to wait for page_alloc_init_late.  Other
memory models (e.g.  flatmem) might have different initialization
layouts (page_ext_init_flatmem).  Currently DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG which in turn

	depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
	depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG

and X86_64_ACPI_NUMA depends on NUMA which in turn disable FLATMEM
memory model:

config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
	def_bool y
	depends on X86_32 && !NUMA

so FLATMEM is ruled out via dependency maze.  Be explicit and disable
FLATMEM for DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT so that we do not reintroduce
subtle initialization bugs

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160523073157.GD2278@dhcp22.suse.cz

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464027356-32282-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 2664c118b5d2e..22fa8189e4fc8 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	default n
 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+	depends on !FLATMEM
 	help
 	  Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
 	  single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
-- 
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