linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 28/35] radix: move radix init early

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Message-ID: <84144f021002100205v7968a342lb315296eccefb523@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:05:53 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/35] radix: move radix init early

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> On 02/09/2010 11:56 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:32:39 -0800
>>> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> prepare to use it in early_irq_init()
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>  init/main.c |    2 +-
>>>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
>>>> index 4cb47a1..8451878 100644
>>>> --- a/init/main.c
>>>> +++ b/init/main.c
>>>> @@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>>>>               local_irq_disable();
>>>>       }
>>>>       rcu_init();
>>>> +     radix_tree_init();
>>>>       /* init some links before init_ISA_irqs() */
>>>>       early_irq_init();
>>>>       init_IRQ();
>>>> @@ -657,7 +658,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>>>>       proc_caches_init();
>>>>       buffer_init();
>>>>       key_init();
>>>> -     radix_tree_init();
>>>>       security_init();
>>>>       vfs_caches_init(totalram_pages);
>>>>       signals_init();
>>>
>>> Probably OK.  Note that radix_tree_init() uses slab, and it is now being
>>> called before the kernel has run kmem_cache_init_late().  So please
>>> ensure that this code was tested with CONFIG_SLAB=y.
>>
>> That should be fine but yeah, definitely needs to be tested.
>
> tested with x86 bit with CONFIG_SLAB=y, and it works.

OK, great. Would be good to have some coverage on other architectures
as well. PPC was one of the archs that blew up last time we changed
init order.
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