Kernel - My Linux kernel repository

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2009-01-08	async: make async_synchronize_full() more serializing	Arjan van de Ven
	turns out that there are real problems with allowing async tasks that are scheduled from async tasks to run after the async_synchronize_full() returns. This patch makes the _full more strict and a complete synchronization. Later I might need to add back a lighter form of synchronization for other uses.. but not right now. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-07	async: don't do the initcall stuff post boot	Arjan van de Ven
	while tracking the asynchronous calls during boot using the initcall_debug convention is useful, doing it once the kernel is done is actually bad now that we use asynchronous operations post boot as well... Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-07	async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot	Arjan van de Ven
	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>