Arm linux 内核移植及系统初始化过程分析

Start_kernel()函数负责初始化内核各个子系统，最后调用reset_init()，启动一个叫做init的内核线程，继续初始化。Start_kernel()函数在init/main.c中实现。

asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
{
char * command_line;
extern struct kernel_param __start___param[], __stop___param[];

smp_setup_processor_id();

/*
* Need to run as early as possible, to initialize the
* lockdep hash:
*/
lockdep_init();

local_irq_disable();
early_boot_irqs_off();
early_init_irq_lock_class();

/*
* Interrupts are still disabled. Do necessary setups, then
* enable them
*/
lock_kernel();
boot_cpu_init();
page_address_init();
printk(KERN_NOTICE);
printk(linux_banner);
setup_arch(&command_line);
//setup processor and machine and destinate some pointers for do_initcalls() functions
// for example init_machine pointer is initialized with smdk_machine_init() function , and //init_machine() function is called by customize_machine(), and the function is processed by //arch_initcall(fn). Therefore smdk_machine_init() is issured. by edwin
setup_per_cpu_areas();
smp_prepare_boot_cpu(); /* arch-specific boot-cpu hooks */

/*
* Set up the scheduler prior starting any interrupts (such as the
* timer interrupt). Full topology setup happens at smp_init()
* time - but meanwhile we still have a functioning scheduler.
*/
sched_init();
/*
* Disable preemption - early bootup scheduling is extremely
* fragile until we cpu_idle() for the first time.
*/
preempt_disable();
build_all_zonelists();
page_alloc_init();
printk(KERN_NOTICE "Kernel command line: %s/n", saved_command_line);
parse_early_param();
parse_args("Booting kernel", command_line, __start___param,
__stop___param - __start___param,
&unknown_bootoption);
sort_main_extable();
unwind_init();
trap_init();
rcu_init();
init_IRQ();
pidhash_init();
init_timers();
hrtimers_init();
softirq_init();
timekeeping_init();
time_init();
profile_init();
if (!irqs_disabled())
printk("start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early/n");
early_boot_irqs_on();
local_irq_enable();

/*
* HACK ALERT! This is early. Were enabling the console before
* weve done PCI setups etc, and console_init() must be aware of
* this. But we do want output early, in case something goes wrong.
*/
console_init();
if (panic_later)
panic(panic_later, panic_param);

lockdep_info();

/*
* Need to run this when irqs are enabled, because it wants
* to self-test [hard/soft]-irqs on/off lock inversion bugs
* too:
*/
locking_selftest();

#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
if (initrd_start && !initrd_below_start_ok &&
initrd_start < min_low_pfn < PAGE_SHIFT) {
printk(KERN_CRIT "initrd overwritten (0x%08lx < 0x%08lx) - "
"disabling it./n",initrd_start,min_low_pfn < PAGE_SHIFT);
initrd_start = 0;
}
#endif
vfs_caches_init_early();
cpuset_init_early();
mem_init();
kmem_cache_init();
setup_per_cpu_pageset();
numa_policy_init();
if (late_time_init)
late_time_init();
calibrate_delay();
pidmap_init();
pgtable_cache_init();
prio_tree_init();
anon_vma_init();
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
if (efi_enabled)
efi_enter_virtual_mode();
#endif
fork_init(num_physpages);
proc_caches_init();
buffer_init();
unnamed_dev_init();
key_init();
security_init();
vfs_caches_init(num_physpages);
radix_tree_init();
signals_init();
/* rootfs populating might need page-writeback */
page_writeback_init();
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
proc_root_init();
#endif
cpuset_init();
taskstats_init_early();
delayacct_init();

check_bugs();

acpi_early_init(); /* before LAPIC and SMP init */

/* Do the rest non-__inited, were now alive */
rest_init();
}

分析start_kernel()源码， 其中setup_arch() 和 reset_init()是两个比较关键的函数。下面将具体分析这两个函数。
5.2. setup_arch()函数分析
首先我们来分析下setup_arch()函数。
Setup_arch()函数主要工作是安装cpu和machine，并为start_kernel()后面的初始化函数指针指定值。
其中setup_processor()函数调用linux/arch/arm/kernel/head_common.S 中的lookup_processor_type函数查询处理器的型号并安装。