Re: [PATCH v2a] jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem somewhat later

[David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>]

On 12/14/2011 09:54 AM, David Daney wrote:
> From: David Daney<david.daney@cavium.com>
>
> commit 97ce2c88f9ad42e3c60a9beb9fca87abf3639faa
> (jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier) breaks MIPS.
>
> The jump-label initialization does I-Cache flushing after modifying
> code.  On MIPS this is done by calling through the function pointer
> flush_icache_range().  This function pointer is initialized by
> trap_init().
>
> As things stand, we cannot be calling jump_label_init() until after
> trap_init() completes, so we move the call down to satisfy this
> constraint.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney<david.daney@cavium.com>

NACK to myself:

I now have a patch for MIPS that makes this one unnecessary.

David Daney

> ---
>
> Sorry for spamming this out again, but Sergei keeps flagging my poor
> grammar.
>
> Difference from v2: Fix grammar and spelling issues in changelog.  No
>                      change to the patch.
>
> Difference from v1: Move jump_label_init() up one so it is now before
>                      mm_init() instead of after it.
>
>
>   init/main.c |    3 +--
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 217ed23..68ab12b 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -513,8 +513,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>   		   __stop___param - __start___param,
>   		&unknown_bootoption);
>
> -	jump_label_init();
> -
>   	/*
>   	 * These use large bootmem allocations and must precede
>   	 * kmem_cache_init()
> @@ -524,6 +522,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>   	vfs_caches_init_early();
>   	sort_main_extable();
>   	trap_init();
> +	jump_label_init();
>   	mm_init();
>
>   	/*