From 22a9d645677feefd402befd02edd59b122289ef1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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 <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---
 init/do_mounts.c | 2 ++
 init/main.c      | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'init')

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 5efca73b39f..708105e163d 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/initrd.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
 
 #include <linux/nfs_fs.h>
 #include <linux/nfs_fs_sb.h>
@@ -372,6 +373,7 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
 	/* wait for the known devices to complete their probing */
 	while (driver_probe_done() != 0)
 		msleep(100);
+	async_synchronize_full();
 
 	md_run_setup();
 
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index b5a892c6837..f66715d8a85 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 #include <linux/signal.h>
 #include <linux/idr.h>
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
 #include <trace/boot.h>
 
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -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();
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