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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] fastboot: make fastboot a config option
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:23:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730082335.4da1296f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080720151234.4535ee73@infradead.org>

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:12:34 -0700 Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:20:49 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] fastboot: make fastboot a config option
> 
> to mitigate the risks of async bootup, make fastboot a configuration
> option...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---
>  init/Kconfig |   11 +++++++++++
>  init/main.c  |    4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 6199d11..7545c8b 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -524,6 +524,17 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
>  
>  	  If unsure, say N.
>  
> +config FASTBOOT
> +	bool "Fast boot support"
> +	help
> +	  The fastboot option will cause the kernel to try to optimize
> +	  for faster boot. 
> +
> +	  This includes doing some of the device initialization asynchronous

	                                                        asynchronously

> +	  as well as opportunistically trying to mount the root fs early.
> +
> +	  If unsure, say N.
> +
>  config SYSCTL
>  	bool
>  
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 6be1756..bb97add 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -776,7 +776,11 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
>  	for (call = __initcall_start; call < __initcall_end; call++) {
>  		if (phase == 0 && call >= __async_initcall_start) {
>  			phase = 1;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FASTBOOT
>  			queue_work(async_init_wq, &async_work);
> +#else
> +			do_async_initcalls(NULL);
> +#endif
>  		}
>  		if (phase == 1 && call >= __async_initcall_end)
>  			phase = 2;
> -- 

---
~Randy
Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-30 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080720151140.4aa7c682@infradead.org>
2008-07-20 22:12 ` [patch 1/4] fastboot: make fastboot a config option Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-30 15:23   ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2008-07-31 10:53     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-20 22:13 ` [patch 2/4] fastboot: retry mounting the root fs if we can't find init Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-21  1:35   ` Daniel Walker
2008-07-20 22:13 ` [patch 3/4] fastboot: make the raid autodetect code wait for all devices to init Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-20 23:06   ` Neil Brown
2008-07-20 23:12     ` david
2008-07-20 23:19     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-20 23:31     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-21  4:30       ` Neil Brown
2008-07-20 21:33         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-20 22:14 ` [patch 4/4] fastboot: remove "wait for all devices before mounting root" delay Arjan van de Ven

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