On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:16:52PM +0100, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > We trap and emulate some instructions (e.g, mrs, deprecated instructions) > for the userspace. However the handlers for these are registered as > late_initcalls and the userspace could be up and running from the initramfs > by that time (with populate_rootfs, which is a rootfs_initcall()). This > could cause problems for the early applications ending up in failure > like : > > [ 11.152061] modprobe[93]: undefined instruction: pc=0000ffff8ca48ff4 > > This patch promotes the specific calls to core_initcalls, which are > guaranteed to be completed before we hit userspace. > > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> > Cc: Dave Martin <[email protected]> > Cc: Matthias Brugger <[email protected]> > Cc: James Morse <[email protected]> > Reported-by: Matwey V. Kornilov <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>
Both patches queued for 4.14. Thanks. -- Catalin
