Re: [PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (was: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs)

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From: Christoph Hellwig

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (was: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs)

Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 12:04 pm

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:02:36PM +0100, ??ric Piel wrote:
quoted text> It's been a week and no one has screamed, so I guess the idea looks fine
> to everyone :-) 
> 
> Here is a boot tested patch for integration. In addition to the previous
> version, it removes also rootfs_initcall(), and uses fs_initcall_sync().
> There should be absolutely no difference in behaviour as there was no
> user of fs_initcall_sync() in the kernel.
> 
> I'm not sure what should be the best tree to go through. Maybe the ACPI
> tree, as all this is needed for CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD...

Actually I've just got a report today where we get an uninitialized
spinlock due to this in -mm.  It's probably possible to work around it,
though.

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acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Feb 10, 12:12 am)

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Feb 10, 12:14 am)

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Eric Piel, (Sun Feb 10, 4:58 am)

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Sergey Vlasov, (Mon Feb 11, 6:47 am)

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Éric Piel, (Mon Feb 11, 4:41 pm)

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Feb 11, 10:37 pm)

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Éric Piel, (Thu Feb 21, 11:46 am)

[PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (was: a ..., Éric Piel, (Thu Feb 21, 12:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (wa ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Feb 21, 12:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early, Éric Piel, (Thu Feb 21, 2:27 pm)

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Thomas Renninger, (Fri Feb 22, 1:51 am)

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Thomas Renninger, (Fri Feb 22, 2:05 am)

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs, Andi Kleen, (Fri Feb 22, 2:53 am)

[PATCH] Use userland-like functions for reading the ACPI table, Éric Piel, (Sat Feb 23, 12:34 pm)

[PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (resent ..., Éric Piel, (Sat Feb 23, 12:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Use userland-like functions for reading the AC ..., Linus Torvalds, (Sat Feb 23, 1:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Use userland-like functions for reading the AC ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sat Feb 23, 6:31 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Use userland-like functions for reading the AC ..., Éric Piel, (Sun Feb 24, 12:02 pm)


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