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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-04-18 06:56:15 (GMT)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2008-04-24 10:57:33 (GMT)
commit8c9843e57a7d9d7a090d6467a0f1f3afb8031527 (patch)
tree5efdab577853bc92e3c980fc97aba74be58c1efb /init
parent1d32e21889b96e594e8b63b193bf7d2a51ab93ec (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-8c9843e57a7d9d7a090d6467a0f1f3afb8031527.tar.xz
[POWERPC] Add thread_info_cache_init() weak hook
Some architectures need to maintain a kmem cache for thread info structures. The next commit adds that to powerpc to fix an alignment problem. There is no good arch callback to use to initialize that cache that I can find, so this adds a new one in the form of a weak function whose default is empty. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/main.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 833a67d..507c9fb 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -525,6 +525,10 @@ void __init __attribute__((weak)) smp_setup_processor_id(void)
{
}
+void __init __weak thread_info_cache_init(void)
+{
+}
+
asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
{
char * command_line;
@@ -645,6 +649,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
if (efi_enabled)
efi_enter_virtual_mode();
#endif
+ thread_info_cache_init();
fork_init(num_physpages);
proc_caches_init();
buffer_init();