From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751221AbWJHPZg (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:25:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751224AbWJHPZg (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:25:36 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:3515 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751221AbWJHPZf (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:25:35 -0400 Subject: Re: + clocksource-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mm tree From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Daniel Walker Cc: akpm@osdl.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, zippel@linux-m68k.org, LKML In-Reply-To: <1160319033.3693.19.camel@c-67-180-230-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> References: <200610070153.k971ren4020838@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1160294812.22911.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1160302797.22911.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1160319033.3693.19.camel@c-67-180-230-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:53:54 +0200 Message-Id: <1160319234.5686.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 07:50 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 10:06 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@osdl.org wrote: > > > > Since it's likely that this interface would get used during bootup I moved all > > > > the clocksource registration into the postcore initcall. This also eliminated > > > > some clocksource shuffling during bootup. > > > > > > We had the init call in postcore already. John moved it to module init > > > to eliminate trouble with unsynced / unstable TSCs, IIRC. > > > > > > John, can you please comment on this. > > > > It also breaks pmtimer. > > OGAWA reported this already. It breaks the case when there is a verified > read needed, instead of the fast read. I'll fix it. I'd like to know, why we need to move that and you did not explain _why_ it is likely that it is used during bootup. tglx