Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-22 Thread Andi Kleen
> Which is probably a good idea. > AFAIK Numa, possibly Apic tables must be available quite early. NUMA setup does not use the DSDT, but separate special tables (SRAT/SLIT). It also doesn't require the ACPI interpreter, these are all simple static tables. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-22 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 09:51 +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 19:46 +0100, Éric Piel wrote: > > 12/02/08 06:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote/a écrit: > > > [skipping the populate_rootfs discussion as it seems you have a better > > > handle on that than me] > > > > > > On Sun, Feb

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-22 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 19:46 +0100, Éric Piel wrote: > 12/02/08 06:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote/a écrit: > > [skipping the populate_rootfs discussion as it seems you have a better > > handle on that than me] > > > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:58:09PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote: > >>> And while we're at

Re: [PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (was: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs)

2008-02-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:02:36PM +0100, ??ric Piel wrote: > It's been a week and no one has screamed, so I guess the idea looks fine > to everyone :-) > > Here is a boot tested patch for integration. In addition to the previous > version, it removes also rootfs_initcall(), and uses fs_initcall_

[PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (was: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs)

2008-02-21 Thread Éric Piel
12/02/08 00:41, Éric Piel wrote/a écrit: > 11/02/08 14:47, Sergey Vlasov wrote/a écrit: >>> Would that seem an acceptable solution? Or what other way exists? >> Disabling call_usermodehelper() until all core initializers had >> completed would fix the problem too; will such change be acceptable? >

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-21 Thread Éric Piel
12/02/08 06:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote/a écrit: > [skipping the populate_rootfs discussion as it seems you have a better > handle on that than me] > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:58:09PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote: >>> And while we're at it the file reading thing in there is utter crap >>> aswell. Y

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
[skipping the populate_rootfs discussion as it seems you have a better handle on that than me] On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:58:09PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote: > >And while we're at it the file reading thing in there is utter crap > >aswell. You really should be using the firmware loader which works >

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-11 Thread Éric Piel
11/02/08 14:47, Sergey Vlasov wrote/a écrit: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:58:09 +0100 Eric Piel wrote: > >> I guess the problem that Linus solved by moving populate_rootfs() >> happens only rarely or on only few configurations. Linus, do you >> remember what kind of problem it was? How can I reproduce

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-11 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:58:09 +0100 Eric Piel wrote: > (adding some CC's) > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> Folks, moving this call around hidden behing in completely unreviewed > >> acpi junk is not acceptable. > >> > >> Either p

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-10 Thread Eric Piel
(adding some CC's) Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Folks, moving this call around hidden behing in completely unreviewed acpi junk is not acceptable. Either populate_rootfs _is_ safe to be called earlier and then we should do it always

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Folks, moving this call around hidden behing in completely unreviewed > acpi junk is not acceptable. > > Either populate_rootfs _is_ safe to be called earlier and then we should > do it always or it's not. Either way such a chan

acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Folks, moving this call around hidden behing in completely unreviewed acpi junk is not acceptable. Either populate_rootfs _is_ safe to be called earlier and then we should do it always or it's not. Either way such a change should be posted separately and reviewd on lkml. Len, can you please reve