Re: [PATCH v13 4/6] arm64: Move unflatten_device_tree() call earlier.

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 08:48:19 EST


On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:56 PM, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In order to extract NUMA information from the device tree, we need to
> have the tree in its unflattened form.
>
> Move the call to unflatten_device_tree() into paging_init(). This
> puts it before the call to bootmem_init(), which is where the NUMA
> information is extracted.

Can't you just move up unflatten_device_tree in setup_arch rather than
hiding in paging_init?

> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 7 +++----
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)