linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 15:14:26 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, npiggin@...e.de
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 13:19 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Could we document the core boot strap procedure some more? I think we will
> have slight breakage in various parts if we change the order. If we had
> some design to guide then it may be easier to bring all the components in
> order.

Hmm. I am avoiding all the hard issues by letting all the architecture
specific early boot code run before I set up the kernel memory
allocators. The only thing that changes order is init_IRQ() which should
be fine.

			Pekka

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