Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:04:55 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (was: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs) |
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:02:36PM +0100, ??ric Piel wrote: > It's been a week and no one has screamed, so I guess the idea looks fine > to everyone :-) > > Here is a boot tested patch for integration. In addition to the previous > version, it removes also rootfs_initcall(), and uses fs_initcall_sync(). > There should be absolutely no difference in behaviour as there was no > user of fs_initcall_sync() in the kernel. > > I'm not sure what should be the best tree to go through. Maybe the ACPI > tree, as all this is needed for CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD...
Actually I've just got a report today where we get an uninitialized spinlock due to this in -mm. It's probably possible to work around it, though.
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