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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Anoop P A <anoop.pa@gmail.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce mips_late_time_init
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:21:04 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012082217230.2653@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101208203704.GB30923@linux-mips.org>

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 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.

It's more ioremap, but yeah.
 
> 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?

That's a good question and I asked it myself already. I can't see a
real reason why something would need it early. Definitely worth to
try.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-08 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1291623812.31822.6.camel@paanoop1-desktop>
     [not found] ` <4CFD2095.9040404@caviumnetworks.com>
2010-12-08 20:37   ` [PATCH] Introduce mips_late_time_init Ralf Baechle
2010-12-08 21:21     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2010-12-08 22:45       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-12-10 17:21         ` Paul Mundt

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