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From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
	ralf@linux-mips.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem somewhat later
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:17:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE8DA11.5020109@cavium.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323881470.28489.51.camel@twins>

On 12/14/2011 08:51 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 08:48 -0800, David Daney wrote:
>> From: David Daney<david.daney@cavium.com>
>>
>> commit 97ce2c88f9ad42e3c60a9beb9fca87abf3639faa breaks MIPS.
>>
>> The jump-lable 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 mm_init().

Actually I misspoke, for MIPS we need jump_label_init() after 
trap_init(), not mm_init().

>>
>> As things stand, we cannot be calling jump_label_init() until after
>> mm_init() completes, so we move the call down to satisfy this
>> constraint.
>
> I'm fine as long as it stays before sched_init(), which it does. Jeremy
> is this still early enough for you?
>

Just tested a revised patch that moves it to between trap_init() and 
mm_init(), I propose that we do that instead.

New patch in a couple of minutes.

David Daney

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-14 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 16:48 [PATCH] jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem somewhat later David Daney
2011-12-14 16:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-14 17:17   ` David Daney [this message]
2011-12-14 18:31 ` Sergei Shtylyov

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