As soon as register_filesystem() exits, filesystem can be mounted. It is better to present fully operational /proc.
Of course it doesn't matter because /proc is not modular but do it anyway. Drop error check, it should be handled by panicking. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com> --- fs/proc/root.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/root.c +++ b/fs/proc/root.c @@ -123,14 +123,8 @@ static struct file_system_type proc_fs_type = { void __init proc_root_init(void) { - int err; - proc_init_kmemcache(); set_proc_pid_nlink(); - err = register_filesystem(&proc_fs_type); - if (err) - return; - proc_self_init(); proc_thread_self_init(); proc_symlink("mounts", NULL, "self/mounts"); @@ -146,6 +140,8 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void) proc_tty_init(); proc_mkdir("bus", NULL); proc_sys_init(); + + register_filesystem(&proc_fs_type); } static int proc_root_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat *stat,