Re: [PATCH] Introduce mips_late_time_init

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:42:45AM -0800, David Daney wrote:

> On 12/06/2010 12:23 AM, Anoop P A wrote:
> >This patch moves plat_time_init and clocksoure init funtion calls to
> >late_time_init.
> >
> 
> Why would you want to do this?
> 
> The current code works perfectly, so I see no reason to change it.

Well, not really.  By the time time_init is called kmalloc isn't ready yet.
That's why mips_clockevent_device pretty much had to be statically
allocated and is also why interrupts have to use setup_irq instead of
request_irq.

Keeping mips_clockevent_device statically allocated as per-CPU makes sense.
Less for the struct irqaction and he'll have to allocate one for each
VPE (think CPU) he installs a clockevent device on.

Running everything from late_time_init() instead allows the use of kmalloc.
X86 has the same issue with requiring kmalloc in time_init which is why
they had moved everything to late_time_init.

So the real question is, why can't we just move the call of time_init()
in setup_kernel() to where late_time_init() is getting called from for
all architectures, does anything rely on it getting called early?

  Ralf