Re: [PATCH] jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem somewhatlater

[David Daney]

On 12/14/2011 08:51 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 08:48 -0800, David Daney wrote:
> > From: David Daney<david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 97ce2c88f9ad42e3c60a9beb9fca87abf3639faa breaks MIPS.
> >
> > The jump-lable initialization does I-Cache flushing after modifying
> > code.  On MIPS this is done by calling through the function pointer
> > flush_icache_range().  This function pointer is initialized mm_init().

Actually I misspoke, for MIPS we need jump_label_init() after 
trap_init(), not mm_init().

> > As things stand, we cannot be calling jump_label_init() until after
> > mm_init() completes, so we move the call down to satisfy this
> > constraint.
>
> I'm fine as long as it stays before sched_init(), which it does. Jeremy
> is this still early enough for you?

Just tested a revised patch that moves it to between trap_init() and 
mm_init(), I propose that we do that instead.

New patch in a couple of minutes.

David Daney
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