Re: ksyms_init considered too heavyweight for early bootstrap

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:29:55AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:

> I found out why a LOCKDEBUG sparc64 kernel crashes very early:
> 
> "Traditionally" we have called ksyms_init() very early in MD bootstrap(),
> even before running pmap_bootstrap(). Nowadays ksyms_init() does a 
> mutex_init(),
> which is, at least with LOCKDEBUG, a very heavy weight operation - too much
> for the still very restricted runtime environment at this stage - on sparc64
> neither curcpu nor curlwp are valid, and we have not yet setup our trap
> handlers.
> 
> Now I could solve this in a MD way (for example move the call to cpu_startup),
> but I wonder if other archs run into the same problem (maybe with less drastic
> failure mode) and the attached MI fix would be better?

Also ksyms_init() may not be called at all, which is why I put the
mutex_init() into main().

Andrew