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powerpc/mm: enable page parallel initialisation

Parallel initialisation has been enabled for X86, boot time is improved
greatly. On Power8, it is improved greatly for small memory. Here is
the result from my test on Power8 platform:

For 4GB of memory, boot time is improved by 59%, from 24.5s to 10s.

For 50GB memory, boot time is improved by 22%, from 56.8s to 43.8s.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Li Zhang and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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arch/powerpc/Kconfig
··· 158 158 select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 159 159 select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER 160 160 select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL 161 + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT 161 162 162 163 config GENERIC_CSUM 163 164 def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN