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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:22:18 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@...il.com>
CC:	<tj@...nel.org>, <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: explicitly init the early_init field

On 2014/4/22 13:27, Jianyu Zhan wrote:
> For a cgroup subsystem who should init early, then it should carefully
> take care of the implementation of css_alloc, because it will be called
> before mm_init() setup the world.
> 
> Luckily we don't, and we better explicitly assign the early_init field
> to 0, for document reason.
> 

If you think this is the right thing to do, you can apply the same reason
to the initialization of other structures in the whole kernel tree.

> Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@...il.com>

nack

> ---
>  kernel/cgroup.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index 559f822..f23cb67 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -5325,5 +5325,6 @@ struct cgroup_subsys debug_cgrp_subsys = {
>  	.css_alloc = debug_css_alloc,
>  	.css_free = debug_css_free,
>  	.base_cftypes = debug_files,
> +	.early_init = 0,
>  };
>  #endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_DEBUG */
> 

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