Re: [PATCH 2/2] devtmpfs: actually reclaim some init memory

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Mar 12 2021 - 11:28:28 EST


On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:30:27AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Currently gcc seems to inline devtmpfs_setup() into devtmpfsd(), so
> its memory footprint isn't reclaimed as intended. Mark it noinline to
> make sure it gets put in .init.text.
>
> While here, setup_done can also be put in .init.data: After complete()
> releases the internal spinlock, the completion object is never touched
> again by that thread, and the waiting thread doesn't proceed until it
> observes ->done while holding that spinlock.
>
> This is now the same pattern as for kthreadd_done in init/main.c:
> complete() is done in a __ref function, while the corresponding
> wait_for_completion() is in an __init function.

I'm not sure if this matters in any way, but it does look fine to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>