Re: start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, David Howells wrote:

>
> Can we provide a kmem_cache_create_early()?  One that takes no locks and gets
> cleaned up with the other __init stuff?

Sure. We can also check if we are early in boot in kmem_cache_create and
just not take the semaphores (which are useless if we are single
threaded).


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