linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/18] move do_timer() from kernel/timer.c into kernel/time/timekeeping.c

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:51:59 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Torben Hohn <torbenh@....de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, hch@...radead.org,
	yong.zhang0@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] move do_timer() from kernel/timer.c into
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 11:34 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Something like the (completely untested) below would do I guess:

> @@ -8172,6 +8180,8 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
>  	init_idle(current, smp_processor_id());
>  
>  	calc_load_update = jiffies + LOAD_FREQ;
> +	global_load_timer.slack = 0;
> +	mod_timer(&global_load_timer, calc_load_update + 10);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * During early bootup we pretend to be a normal task:

OK, so calling mod_timer() before init_timers() is _not_ a good idea ;-)
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