Re: core_param: call these really, really early.

[Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:23:41AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> As soon as we have command line, so even before early_param.  They
> just set vars, so it makes sense to do them as early as possible.
> 
> This allows them to replace early_param, and fixes a bug in the new
> cpu_alloc implementation patches which was a complete PITA to find.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

[...]

> diff -r 65aebfe44ef1 init/main.c
> --- a/init/main.c	Wed Nov 19 22:47:52 2008 +1030
> +++ b/init/main.c	Wed Nov 19 23:58:08 2008 +1030
> @@ -569,6 +588,10 @@
>  	setup_arch(&command_line);
>  	mm_init_owner(&init_mm, &init_task);
>  	setup_command_line(command_line);
> +	parse_args("Core params", command_line, __start___core_param,
> +		   __stop___core_param - __start___core_param,
> +		   unknown_core_ok);
> +
>  	unwind_setup();
>  	setup_per_cpu_areas();
>  	setup_nr_cpu_ids();

...but setup_arch() calls parse_early_param(). So how is this earlier
than early_param?