From 22a9d645677feefd402befd02edd59b122289ef1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:45:46 -0800 Subject: async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that various hardware delays are done sequentially. In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays in practice. In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this patch does NOT do full parallel initialization. Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven --- init/main.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init/main.c') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index b5a892c68375..f66715d8a853 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -684,7 +685,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void) rest_init(); } -static int initcall_debug; +int initcall_debug; core_param(initcall_debug, initcall_debug, bool, 0644); int do_one_initcall(initcall_t fn) @@ -785,6 +786,8 @@ static void run_init_process(char *init_filename) */ static noinline int init_post(void) { + /* need to finish all async __init code before freeing the memory */ + async_synchronize_full(); free_initmem(); unlock_kernel(); mark_rodata_ro(); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b