Re: [PATCH 28/35] radix: move radix init early

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Feb 09 2010 - 14:56:49 EST


On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:32:39 -0800
> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> prepare to use it in early_irq_init()
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  init/main.c |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
>> index 4cb47a1..8451878 100644
>> --- a/init/main.c
>> +++ b/init/main.c
>> @@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>>               local_irq_disable();
>>       }
>>       rcu_init();
>> +     radix_tree_init();
>>       /* init some links before init_ISA_irqs() */
>>       early_irq_init();
>>       init_IRQ();
>> @@ -657,7 +658,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>>       proc_caches_init();
>>       buffer_init();
>>       key_init();
>> -     radix_tree_init();
>>       security_init();
>>       vfs_caches_init(totalram_pages);
>>       signals_init();
>
> Probably OK.  Note that radix_tree_init() uses slab, and it is now being
> called before the kernel has run kmem_cache_init_late().  So please
> ensure that this code was tested with CONFIG_SLAB=y.

That should be fine but yeah, definitely needs to be tested.
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