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Hi Rusty,
In profiling bootup time, we noticed something new appeared
on the graph at http://pjones.fedorapeople.org/bootchart-preinit.png
in the name of khvcd.

"wtf is this" was my first reaction.
Followed shortly by much headscratching after finding it's
created by drivers/char/hvc_console.c whose Kconfig yeilds..

config HVC_DRIVER
bool
help
Users of pSeries machines that want to utilize the hvc console front-end
module for their backend console driver should select this option.

Which is a little confusing for those of us not actually using a pSeries.
The above profile came from a x86 box.
A little more grepping around revealed that lguest select's HVC_DRIVER,
thus sneaking this config option into the build.

asides from the needed Kconfig clarification, is it necessary for khvcd
to run at all if the lguest module hasn't been loaded ? Is it possible
we can somehow delay creation of the kthread ?

Dave

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