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Add "pure_initcall" for static variable initialization

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This is a quick hack to overcome the fact that SRCU currently does not
allow static initializers, and we need to sometimes initialize those
things before any other initializers (even "core" ones) can do so.

Currently we don't allow this at all for modules, and the only user that
needs is right now is cpufreq. As reported by Thomas Gleixner:

   "Commit b4dfdbb3c7 ("[PATCH] cpufreq:
    make the transition_notifier chain use SRCU breaks cpu frequency
    notification users, which register the callback > on core_init
    level."

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds 2006-11-20 11:47:18 -08:00
parent f44ea62344
commit b3438f8266
3 changed files with 11 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
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@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int __init init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list(void)
srcu_init_notifier_head(&cpufreq_transition_notifier_list);
return 0;
}
core_initcall(init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list);
pure_initcall(init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list);
static LIST_HEAD(cpufreq_governor_list);
static DEFINE_MUTEX (cpufreq_governor_mutex);

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include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
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@ -215,6 +215,8 @@
.notes : { *(.note.*) } :note
#define INITCALLS \
*(.initcall0.init) \
*(.initcall0s.init) \
*(.initcall1.init) \
*(.initcall1s.init) \
*(.initcall2.init) \

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include/linux/init.h
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@ -93,6 +93,14 @@ extern void setup_arch(char **);
static initcall_t __initcall_##fn##id __attribute_used__ \
__attribute__((__section__(".initcall" level ".init"))) = fn
/*
* A "pure" initcall has no dependencies on anything else, and purely
* initializes variables that couldn't be statically initialized.
*
* This only exists for built-in code, not for modules.
*/
#define pure_initcall(fn) __define_initcall("0",fn,1)
#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)