linux-kernel - Re: sparc boot failure due to perf init

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Message-Id: <20110113.122522.107108292.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:25:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peterz@...radead.org
Cc:	sam@...nborg.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sparc boot failure due to perf init

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:55:28 +0100

> I just realized, doesn't this make bootability depend on link order?
> Since both the pmu init and its dependencies are now early_initcall()
> how do we guarantee pcr_arch_init() and cpu_type_probe() are in fact
> called _before_ init_hw_perf_events()?

Yes, it does, and I made sure the ordering in the sparc Makefile
satisfied the constraints.
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