Re: [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock

[David S. Miller]

From: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:45:48 +0200

> As spinlock debugging still does not work with the qeth driver I
> want to pick up the discussion.

Does something like the patch below work?

But this all begs the question, what happens if you want to
dig into the internals of a protocol which is built modular and
hasn't been loaded yet?

diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h
index 93dcbe1..8169f25 100644
--- a/include/linux/init.h
+++ b/include/linux/init.h
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@ #define postcore_initcall(fn)		__define_
 #define arch_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("3",fn)
 #define subsys_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("4",fn)
 #define fs_initcall(fn)			__define_initcall("5",fn)
-#define device_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("6",fn)
-#define late_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("7",fn)
+#define net_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("6",fn)
+#define device_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("7",fn)
+#define late_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("8",fn)
 
 #define __initcall(fn) device_initcall(fn)
 
diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index dc206f1..9803a57 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ out_unregister_udp_proto:
 	goto out;
 }
 
-module_init(inet_init);
+net_initcall(inet_init);
 
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
 
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