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-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig71
-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts_initrd.c5
-rw-r--r--init/main.c19
3 files changed, 59 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index b170aa1d43b..ebe04f56d83 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -80,16 +80,20 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
default y
help
This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
- release tree by looking for git tags that
- belong to the current top of tree revision.
+ release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
+ top of tree revision.
A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
- if a git based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
+ if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
- set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
+ set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
- Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
- the git or cogito tools to be installed.
+ (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
+ by running the command:
+
+ $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
+
+ which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
config SWAP
bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
@@ -352,7 +356,7 @@ menuconfig EMBEDDED
config UID16
bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
- depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
+ depends on ARM || BFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
default y
help
This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
@@ -474,15 +478,6 @@ config SHMEM
option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
-config SLAB
- default y
- bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if (EMBEDDED && !SMP && !SPARSEMEM)
- help
- Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
- kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
- SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
- more susceptible to fragmentation.
-
config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
default y
bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
@@ -492,6 +487,46 @@ config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
if VM event counters are disabled.
+choice
+ prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
+ default SLAB
+ help
+ This option allows to select a slab allocator.
+
+config SLAB
+ bool "SLAB"
+ help
+ The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
+ well in all environments. It organizes chache hot objects in
+ per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
+ slab allocator.
+
+config SLUB
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT
+ bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
+ help
+ SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
+ instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
+ Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
+ of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
+ way and has enhanced diagnostics.
+
+config SLOB
+#
+# SLOB cannot support SMP because SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does not work
+# properly.
+#
+ depends on EMBEDDED && !SMP && !SPARSEMEM
+ bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
+ help
+ SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
+ allocator. SLOB is more space efficient that SLAB but does not
+ scale well (single lock for all operations) and is more susceptible
+ to fragmentation. SLOB it is a great choice to reduce
+ memory usage and code size for embedded systems.
+
+endchoice
+
endmenu # General setup
config RT_MUTEXES
@@ -507,10 +542,6 @@ config BASE_SMALL
default 0 if BASE_FULL
default 1 if !BASE_FULL
-config SLOB
- default !SLAB
- bool
-
menu "Loadable module support"
config MODULES
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
index 2cfd7cb36e7..b222ce9e1c8 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -55,11 +55,12 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void)
sys_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
sys_chroot(".");
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
pid = kernel_thread(do_linuxrc, "/linuxrc", SIGCHLD);
if (pid > 0) {
- while (pid != sys_wait4(-1, NULL, 0, NULL))
+ while (pid != sys_wait4(-1, NULL, 0, NULL)) {
+ try_to_freeze();
yield();
+ }
}
/* move initrd to rootfs' /old */
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index a92989e7836..0e22f40487b 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
#warning gcc-4.1.0 is known to miscompile the kernel. A different compiler version is recommended.
#endif
-static int init(void *);
+static int kernel_init(void *);
extern void init_IRQ(void);
extern void fork_init(unsigned long);
@@ -369,12 +369,8 @@ static void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
unsigned long nr_possible_cpus = num_possible_cpus();
/* Copy section for each CPU (we discard the original) */
- size = ALIGN(__per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
- if (size < PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM)
- size = PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM;
-#endif
- ptr = alloc_bootmem(size * nr_possible_cpus);
+ size = ALIGN(PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM, PAGE_SIZE);
+ ptr = alloc_bootmem_pages(size * nr_possible_cpus);
for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
__per_cpu_offset[i] = ptr - __per_cpu_start;
@@ -388,11 +384,6 @@ static void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
static void __init smp_init(void)
{
unsigned int cpu;
- unsigned highest = 0;
-
- for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, cpu_possible_map)
- highest = cpu;
- nr_cpu_ids = highest + 1;
/* FIXME: This should be done in userspace --RR */
for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -435,7 +426,7 @@ static void __init setup_command_line(char *command_line)
static void noinline rest_init(void)
__releases(kernel_lock)
{
- kernel_thread(init, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_SIGHAND);
+ kernel_thread(kernel_init, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_SIGHAND);
numa_default_policy();
unlock_kernel();
@@ -772,7 +763,7 @@ static int noinline init_post(void)
panic("No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.");
}
-static int __init init(void * unused)
+static int __init kernel_init(void * unused)
{
lock_kernel();
/*