Re: [PATCH] perf-event/cgroup: explicitly init the early_init field

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> wrote:

> For a cgroup subsystem who should init early, then it should carefully
> take care of the implementation of css_alloc, because it will be called
> before mm_init() setup the world.
> 
> Luckily we don't, and we better explicitly assign the early_init field
> to 0, for document reason.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
> ---
>  kernel/events/core.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index f83a71a..b3a8916 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -8062,5 +8062,6 @@ struct cgroup_subsys perf_event_cgrp_subsys = {
>  	.css_free	= perf_cgroup_css_free,
>  	.exit		= perf_cgroup_exit,
>  	.attach		= perf_cgroup_attach,
> +	.early_init	= 0,

How can that field ever be nonzero?

I.e. under what exact circumstances does this patch make sense?

Thanks,

	Ingo