apexd is started much earlier to create loopback devices
This change fixes the problem that apexd is delaying the entire boot sequence while waiting for the loopback devices to be created. The delay was as big as 50 ms per a loopback device. With this change, apexd is started much earlier: from "on post-fs-data" to "on init". When it is first started, it scans /system/apex to determine the number of APEXes and creates that number of loopback devices priori. Since then it enters into the binder loop. When the data partition is mounted, init lets apexd to initiate the apexd boot sequence where APEXes in /data is scanned, verified, and activated. Since the creation of the loopback devices were requested far before, it is very likely that dev nodes for the devices are ready at this moment (even if not, this isn't a lose). Bug: 123404717 Bug: 123772265 Test: compare boot times. init_zygote_START_TIME_avg is improved from 2831ms to 2622ms on blueline Change-Id: I12450cee44aa4d17a11def62261c2f82d3f2c718
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