Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261185AbUKBWC2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:02:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261546AbUKBVxO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:53:14 -0500 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.133]:57806 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261929AbUKBVtu (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:49:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC64 mmu_context_init needs to run earlier From: Nathan Lynch To: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul Mackerras , torvalds@osdl.org, Anton Blanchard , lkml , Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <20041101221336.5f6d8534.akpm@osdl.org> References: <16775.5912.788675.644838@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20041101221336.5f6d8534.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1099432625.23845.93.camel@pants.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:57:05 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2084 Lines: 71 On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 00:13, Andrew Morton wrote: > Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > > This patch changes mmu_context_init to be called as a core_initcall > > rather than an arch_initcall, since mmu_context_init needs to run > > before we try to run any userspace processes, and arch_initcall was > > found to be too late. > > Here we go again... > > I don't see why your patch fixes the problem. do_basic_setup() calls > driver_init() prior to any initcalls being run, and driver_init() can call > /sbin/hotplug. My original submission was more of a "works for me, not sure it's correct" sort of thing. Sorry I wasn't clear. How about this instead: Using idr_get_new_above in init_new_context lets us get rid of an awkward init function which wasn't running early enough in boot anyway. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch --- diff -puN arch/ppc64/mm/init.c~ppc64-mmu-context-use-idr_get_new_above arch/ppc64/mm/init.c --- linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk12/arch/ppc64/mm/init.c~ppc64-mmu-context-use-idr_get_new_above 2004-11-02 14:22:23.000000000 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk12-nathanl/arch/ppc64/mm/init.c 2004-11-02 14:29:09.000000000 -0600 @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ again: return -ENOMEM; spin_lock(&mmu_context_lock); - err = idr_get_new(&mmu_context_idr, NULL, &index); + err = idr_get_new_above(&mmu_context_idr, NULL, 0, &index); spin_unlock(&mmu_context_lock); if (err == -EAGAIN) @@ -518,19 +518,6 @@ void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *m hugetlb_mm_free_pgd(mm); } -static int __init mmu_context_init(void) -{ - int index; - - /* Reserve the first (invalid) context*/ - idr_pre_get(&mmu_context_idr, GFP_KERNEL); - idr_get_new(&mmu_context_idr, NULL, &index); - BUG_ON(0 != index); - - return 0; -} -arch_initcall(mmu_context_init); - /* * Do very early mm setup. */ _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/