000000000 CR3: 00000000024af000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
[   61.398144] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   61.417918] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   61.418260] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff883f64dbe000, task ffff883f64dc0000)
[   61.445358] Stack:
[   61.445511]  0000000000000002 ffff897f649ba168 ffff883f64dbfe10 ffff88ff64bb57a8
[   61.458040]  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff883f64dbfdc0 ffffffff81ceb1b4
[   61.458491]  000000000011608c ffff88ff64bb58a8 ffff883f64dbfdf0 ffffffff81c57638
[   61.478215] Call Trace:
[   61.478367]  [<ffffffff81ceb1b4>] _raw_spin_unlock+0x21/0x2e
[   61.497994]  [<ffffffff81c57638>] klist_next+0x9e/0xbc
[   61.498264]  [<ffffffff8148ba99>] next_device+0xe/0x1e
[   61.517867]  [<ffffffff8148c0cc>] subsys_find_device_by_id+0xb7/0xd6
[   61.518197]  [<ffffffff81498846>] find_memory_block_hinted+0x3d/0x66
[   61.537927]  [<ffffffff8149887f>] find_memory_block+0x10/0x12
[   61.538193]  [<ffffffff814988b6>] add_memory_section+0x35/0x9e
[   61.557932]  [<ffffffff827fecef>] memory_dev_init+0x68/0xda
[   61.558227]  [<ffffffff827fec01>] driver_init+0x97/0xa7
[   61.577853]  [<ffffffff827cdf3c>] kernel_init+0xf6/0x1c0
[   61.578140]  [<ffffffff81cf34a4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[   61.597850]  [<ffffffff81ceb59d>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
[   61.598144]  [<ffffffff827cde46>] ? start_kernel+0x3ab/0x3ab
[   61.617826]  [<ffffffff81cf34a0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
[   61.618060] Code: 10 48 83 3b 00 eb e8 4c 89 f2 44 89 fe 4c 89 ef e8 e1 fe ff ff 65 48 8b 04 25 40 bc 00 00 c7 80 cc 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 41 54 9d <5e> 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 89 cf
[   89.285380] memory_dev_init done

Finally it takes about 55s to create 16400 memory entries.

Root cause: for x86_64, 2048g (with 2g hole at [2g,4g), and TOP2 will be 2050g), will have 16400 memory block.

find_memory_block/subsys_find_device_by_id will be expensive with that many entries.

Actually, we don't need to find that memory block for BOOT path.

Skip that finding make it get back to normal.

[   34.466696] cpu_dev_init done
[   35.290080] memory_dev_init done

Also solved the delay with topology_init when sections_per_block is not 1.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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