Re: How to debug kernel startup time?

[Corrado Zoccolo]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:40:10 +0200
> Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm seeing around 2 s "lost" during kernel boot, that are not
>> accounted for any init call (excerpt of dmesg with initcall_debug
>> follows, kernel is 2.6.29).
>> What's the suggested way to investigate such problems?
>
> I take it you don't have an initrd ?

You guessed right.

>
> If so I know what you are hitting; I have a patch to solve it but it's
> a bit convoluted and not ready for mainline.... let me know if you want
> to try it, I suspect it'll solve your issue ;)
>

Sure. I'd like to test it.

Thanks,
Corrado

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dott. Corrado Zoccolo                          mailto:czoccolo@xxxxxxxxx
PhD - Department of Computer Science - University of Pisa, Italy
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