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

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote:
>
> That leads to another question. usermodehelper_init() is now an initcall.
>  all the binfmt stuff is also an initcall. We had a patch (for debugging)
>  that turned init_elf_binfmt() into core_initcall.
>  Can we change that as well, so one could finally run stuff via the
>  driver hotplug events? init_script_binfmt() should be also
>  core_initcall, so you can run scripts. But I havent looked at the
>  dependencies for the binfmt stuff.



We may as well make usermodehelper_init() core_initcall as well, to make
sure its services are avaialble to all the other initcall levels.



diff -puN kernel/kmod.c~usermodehelper_init-use-core_initcall kernel/kmod.c
--- 25/kernel/kmod.c~usermodehelper_init-use-core_initcall	2004-05-08 04:22:23.119603600 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/kernel/kmod.c	2004-05-08 04:22:28.096846944 -0700
@@ -269,4 +269,4 @@ static __init int usermodehelper_init(vo
 	BUG_ON(!khelper_wq);
 	return 0;
 }
-__initcall(usermodehelper_init);
+core_initcall(usermodehelper_init);

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