start_kernel()分析（一）

   从某种意义上，函数start_kernel就好像一般可执行程序中的主函数main，系统进入这个函数之前已经进行了一些最低限度的初始化，再往前研究就涉及很多硬件相关及编程语言了，这里是较高层次的初始化，基本是C代码，一直想搞清楚内核的初始化流程，好对整个linux内核有更深理解。分析程序习惯性的找main函数，那么就从这个start_kernel看看。

  这个函数在init/main.c：

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

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

一个一个看看：

void lockdep_init(void)
{
	int i;

	/*
	 * Some architectures have their own start_kernel()
	 * code which calls lockdep_init(), while we also
	 * call lockdep_init() from the start_kernel() itself,
	 * and we want to initialize the hashes only once:
	 */
	if (lockdep_initialized)
		return;

	for (i = 0; i < CLASSHASH_SIZE; i++)
		INIT_LIST_HEAD(classhash_table + i);

	for (i = 0; i < CHAINHASH_SIZE; i++)
		INIT_LIST_HEAD(chainhash_table + i);

	lockdep_initialized = 1;
}

注释写得很清楚，有些体系结构有自己的start_kernel也会调用lockdep_init，这里只会调用一次，来初始化hash表。
这个hash表示干什么用的呢？

/*
 * We keep a global list of all lock classes. The list only grows,
 * never shrinks. The list is only accessed with the lockdep
 * spinlock lock held.
 */
LIST_HEAD(all_lock_classes);

/*
 * The lockdep classes are in a hash-table as well, for fast lookup:
 */
#define CLASSHASH_BITS		(MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS - 1)
#define CLASSHASH_SIZE		(1UL << CLASSHA