Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:21:30 +0000
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:13:27AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:55:57 -0800
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I think the bug really is the running of populate_rootfs() before running
> > > the initcalls, in init/main.c:init().  It's just more sensible to start
> > > running userspace after the initcalls have been run.  Statically-linked
> > > drivers which want to load firmware files will lose.  To fix that we'd need
> > > a new callback.  It could be with a new linker section or perhaps simply a
> > > notifier chain.
> > 
> > hm, actually...  Add two new initcall levels, one for populate_rootfs() and
> > one for things which want to come after it (ie: drivers which want to
> > access the filesytem):
> 
> IMO we should just call pipe (and socket) initialization directly at
> the same level as slab, task, dcache, etc.

spose that would work.  But what other initcall-initialised things are not
yet available when populate_rootfs() runs?

<does  grep _initcall */*.c>
<wonders why anything works at all>

> This is basic stuff needed to get operational kernel.  We could try
> to put that on an additional initcall level, but then we ought to
> take the rest of basic setup there as well.
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