Re: [patch] cpufreq: mark cpufreq_tsc() as core_initcall_sync

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 16:25:27 EST


On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > -core_initcall(cpufreq_tsc);
> > +/*
> > + * init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list() should execute first,
> > + * which is a core_initcall, so mark this one core_initcall_sync:
> > + */
> > +core_initcall_sync(cpufreq_tsc);
>
> Would prefer that we not use the _sync levels. They're there as a
> synchronisation for MULTITHREAD_PROBE and might disappear at any time.

Works also fine with postcore_init, but I'm more concerned about the
delayed notification (after the actual change) which is introduced by
this srcu change.

tglx


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