Re: how long does it take to init the scheduler?

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the patch below looks wrong to me. Why did you move it to the very end
> of the boot process, instead to the very end of start_kernel()?
> 

coz I forgot about drivers which want to go opening files in their
module_init().

Like this?

--- 25/init/main.c~populate_rootfs-before-initcalls	2004-05-08 03:57:54.168918048 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/init/main.c	2004-05-08 03:58:58.668112680 -0700
@@ -660,9 +660,15 @@ static int init(void * unused)
 	fixup_cpu_present_map();
 	smp_init();
 	sched_init_smp();
-	do_basic_setup();
 
+	/*
+	 * Do this before initcalls, because some drivers want to access
+	 * firmware files.
+	 */
 	populate_rootfs();
+
+	do_basic_setup();
+
 	/*
 	 * check if there is an early userspace init.  If yes, let it do all
 	 * the work

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