linux-kernel - Re: + clocksource-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-Id: <1160319033.3693.19.camel@c-67-180-230-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>
Date:	Sun, 08 Oct 2006 07:50:32 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, johnstul@...ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + clocksource-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mm
	tree

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 10:06 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@...l.org wrote:
> > > Since it's likely that this interface would get used during bootup I moved all
> > > the clocksource registration into the postcore initcall.  This also eliminated
> > > some clocksource shuffling during bootup.
> > 
> > We had the init call in postcore already. John moved it to module init
> > to eliminate trouble with unsynced / unstable TSCs, IIRC.
> > 
> > John, can you please comment on this.
> 
> It also breaks pmtimer.

OGAWA reported this already. It breaks the case when there is a verified
read needed, instead of the fast read. I'll fix it.

Daniel

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