Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/8] perf, arch: Use early_initcall() for all archpmu implementations

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 17:55 +0000, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So the perf_event_init() site is _waaay_ to early to init stuff.. I
> guess I'll move it all to early_initcall() and I'll move the watchdog to
> an explicit call right after it.
> 
> Something like the below,.. now I guess the question to all of you is,
> can your arch pmu code cope with early_initcall() or does it need to be
> some other place?
> 
The ARM init code basically just parses the CPUID to work out what PMU
is available, so it should be safe to call it as early as you like.

Will


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