Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:13:27 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted |
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:55:57 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> I think the bug really is the running of populate_rootfs() before running > the initcalls, in init/main.c:init(). It's just more sensible to start > running userspace after the initcalls have been run. Statically-linked > drivers which want to load firmware files will lose. To fix that we'd need > a new callback. It could be with a new linker section or perhaps simply a > notifier chain.
hm, actually... Add two new initcall levels, one for populate_rootfs() and one for things which want to come after it (ie: drivers which want to access the filesytem):
#define core_initcall(fn) __define_initcall("1",fn,1) #define core_initcall_sync(fn) __define_initcall("1s",fn,1s) #define postcore_initcall(fn) __define_initcall("2",fn,2) #define postcore_initcall_sync(fn) __define_initcall("2s",fn,2s) #define arch_initcall(fn) __define_initcall("3",fn,3) #define arch_initcall_sync(fn) __define_initcall("3s",fn,3s) #define subsys_initcall(fn) __define_initcall("4",fn,4) #define subsys_initcall_sync(fn) __define_initcall("4s",fn,4s) #define fs_initcall(fn) __define_initcall("5",fn,5) #define fs_initcall_sync(fn) __define_initcall("5s",fn,5s) #define device_initcall(fn) __define_initcall("6",fn,6) #define device_initcall_sync(fn) __define_initcall("6s",fn,6s) #define late_initcall(fn) __define_initcall("7",fn,7) #define late_initcall_sync(fn) __define_initcall("7s",fn,7s) +#define populate_rootfs_initcall ... +#define post_populate_rootfs_initcall ...
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