From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: khvcd
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:16:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070816201649.GA5375@redhat.com> (raw)
Hi Rusty,
In profiling bootup time, we noticed something new appeared
on the graph at http://pjones.fedorapeople.org/bootchart-preinit.png
in the name of khvcd.
"wtf is this" was my first reaction.
Followed shortly by much headscratching after finding it's
created by drivers/char/hvc_console.c whose Kconfig yeilds..
config HVC_DRIVER
bool
help
Users of pSeries machines that want to utilize the hvc console front-end
module for their backend console driver should select this option.
Which is a little confusing for those of us not actually using a pSeries.
The above profile came from a x86 box.
A little more grepping around revealed that lguest select's HVC_DRIVER,
thus sneaking this config option into the build.
asides from the needed Kconfig clarification, is it necessary for khvcd
to run at all if the lguest module hasn't been loaded ? Is it possible
we can somehow delay creation of the kthread ?
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next reply other threads:[~2007-08-16 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-16 20:16 Dave Jones [this message]
2007-08-17 1:25 ` [PATCH] Only initialize hvc_console if needed, cleanup Kconfig help Rusty Russell
2007-08-17 7:46 ` Stephen Rothwell
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