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Date:   Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:17:42 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: make __paginginit based on CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 03:04:34PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 31-07-18 08:49:11, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > Hi Oscar,
> > 
> > Have you looked into replacing __paginginit via __meminit ? What is
> > the reason to keep both?
> 
> All these init variants make my head spin so reducing their number is
> certainly a desirable thing to do. b5a0e01132943 has added this variant
> so it might give a clue about the dependencies.

Looking at b5a0e011329431b90d315eaf6ca5fdb41df7a117, I cannot really see why
this was not done in init.h
Maybe the comitter did not want to hack directly into __meminit.

I think that __paginginit was a way to abstract the whole thing without having
to modify init.h directly.

I guess we could get rid of it and so something like:

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 #define __meminit        __section(.meminit.text) __cold notrace \
                                                  __latent_entropy
#else
#define __meminit       __init
#endif

And then we would have to replace __paginginit with __meminit.

But honestly, puting an #ifdef in init.h feels a bit wierd to me,
although I do not really have a strong opinion here.

Thanks
-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3