Better interface for hooking early initcalls

Added early initcall (pre-SMP) support, using an identical interface to
that of regular initcalls.  Functions called from do_pre_smp_initcalls()
could be converted to use this cleaner interface.

This is required by CPU hotplug, because early users have to register
notifiers before going SMP.  One such CPU hotplug user is the relay
interface with buffer-only channels, which needs to register such a
notifier, to be usable in early code.  This in turn is used by kmemtrace.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 729f6b0a60e9..9cd44b162ba1 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -359,6 +359,8 @@
         }
 
 #define INITCALLS                                                       \
+        *(.initcallearly.init)                                          \
+        __early_initcall_end = .;                                       \
         *(.initcall0.init)                                              \
         *(.initcall0s.init)                                             \
         *(.initcall1.init)                                              \
diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h
index 42ae95411a93..11b84e106053 100644
--- a/include/linux/init.h
+++ b/include/linux/init.h
@@ -170,6 +170,13 @@ extern void (*late_time_init)(void);
         __attribute__((__section__(".initcall" level ".init"))) = fn
 
 /*
+ * Early initcalls run before initializing SMP.
+ *
+ * Only for built-in code, not modules.
+ */
+#define early_initcall(fn)              __define_initcall("early",fn,early)
+
+/*
  * A "pure" initcall has no dependencies on anything else, and purely
  * initializes variables that couldn't be statically initialized.
  *