* [PATCH] x86: don't use module_init for non-modular core bootflag code
@ 2014-01-12 17:57 Paul Gortmaker
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From: Paul Gortmaker @ 2014-01-12 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: H. Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner
Cc: x86, linux-kernel, Paul Gortmaker
The bootflag.o is obj-y (always built in). It will never be
modular, so using module_init as an alias for __initcall is
somewhat misleading.
Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd
have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
would be a worse thing.
Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one
of the priority categorized subgroups. As __initcall gets
mapped onto device_initcall, our use of arch_initcall (which
makes sense for arch code) will thus change this registration
from level 6-device to level 3-arch (i.e. slightly earlier).
However no observable impact of that small difference has
been observed during testing, or is expected.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c b/arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c
index 5de7f4c56971..52c8e3c7789d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c
@@ -98,4 +98,4 @@ static int __init sbf_init(void)
return 0;
}
-module_init(sbf_init);
+arch_initcall(sbf_init);
--
1.8.5.2
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