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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/23] clocksource: increase initcall priority
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:50:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070131115055.GD1847@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070131033807.427331295@mvista.com>


* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:

> -module_init(init_acpi_pm_clocksource);
> +/*
> + * This clocksource is removed from the clocksource_initcall
> + * macro since it's mandatory for it to be in fs_initcall as the
> + * highest initcall level, or else it doesn't work properly with
> + * it's PCI fix ups.
> + */
> +fs_initcall(init_acpi_pm_clocksource);

ugh - this bit looks quite interesting.

what's the purpose of this patch? Switching to high-res timers should be 
done late in the bootup - in case there's a problem it's more 
debuggable, etc.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31  3:37 [PATCH 00/23] clocksource update v12 Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 01/23] clocksource: drop clocksource-add-verification-watchdog-helper-fix.patch Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 12:47   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 02/23] clocksource: drop clocksource-add-verification-watchdog-helper.patch Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 03/23] clocksource: drop clocksource-remove-the-update-callback.patch Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 04/23] clocksource: drop time-x86_64-tsc-fixup-clocksource-changes.patch Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 05/23] clocksource: drop simplify-the-registration-of-clocksources.patch Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 06/23] timekeeping: create kernel/time/timekeeping.c Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  8:59   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 15:05     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 07/23] clocksource: rating sorted list Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  9:34   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 15:07     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 08/23] clocksource: drop duplicate register checking Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  9:59   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 15:13     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 17:19       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 09/23] clocksource: add block notifier Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 10:17   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 15:25     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 17:22       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 10/23] clocksource: remove update_callback Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 10:46   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 15:42     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 17:18       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 11/23] clocksource: atomic signals Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 11:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 15:59     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 17:15       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 12/23] clocksource: add clocksource_get_clock() Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 11:46   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 16:40     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 13/23] timekeeping: move sysfs layer/drop API calls Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 11:49   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 14/23] clocksource: increase initcall priority Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 11:50   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-01-31 16:42     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 17:10       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 17:20         ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 17:29           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 15/23] clocksource: add new flags Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 16/23] clocksource: arm update for " Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 12:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 17/23] clocksource: avr32 " Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 18/23] clocksource: i386 " Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 19/23] clocksource: mips " Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 20/23] clocksource: x86_64 " Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 21/23] clocksource: drivers/ " Daniel Walker
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 22/23] clocksource: new clock lookup method Daniel Walker
     [not found]   ` <20070131122215.GE1847@elte.hu>
     [not found]     ` <1170261439.9781.96.camel@imap.mvista.com>
     [not found]       ` <20070131164918.GA4468@elte.hu>
     [not found]         ` <1170265169.9781.145.camel@imap.mvista.com>
2007-01-31 17:55           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-01-31 18:07             ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 21:09               ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-01-31  3:37 ` [PATCH 23/23] clocksource tsc: add verify routine Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 12:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 17:02     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 17:22       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-01-31 17:33       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-31 19:43 [PATCH 14/23] clocksource: increase initcall priority David Brownell
2007-01-31 22:47 ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-31 23:23   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-02-01  0:15     ` Daniel Walker
2007-02-01  0:34       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-02-01  0:24   ` David Brownell

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