Add "pure_initcall" for static variable initialization
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:47:18 +0000 (11:47 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:47:18 +0000 (11:47 -0800)
commitb3438f8266cb1f5010085ac47d7ad6a36a212164
treebb74bd7a3ea7a629e380aa7761ba63a5e44992c7
parentf44ea623443ee0bec266d62f1cd346881224d47d
Add "pure_initcall" for static variable initialization

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 b4dfdbb3c707474a2254c5b4d7e62be31a4b7da9 ("[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>
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
include/linux/init.h