Re: [patch] drivers/char/esp.c: fix bootup lockup

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sunday, 9 of March 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 03/07/2008 11:08 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > randconfig testing found a bootup lockup in drivers/char/esp.c - find 
> > the fix below. Not sure why it became more prominent in 2.6.25-rc4, the 
> > bug seems rather old and i've been doing allyesconfig bootups for ages 
> > with CONFIG_ESP enabled.
> > 
> > ------------->
> > Subject: drivers/char/esp.c: fix bootup lockup
> > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri Mar 07 10:47:43 CET 2008
> > 
> > fix this bootup lockup:
> > 
> >  PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyP63
> >  ttyP32 at 0x0240 (irq = 0) is an ESP primary port
> >  BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, swapper/1, f56dd004
> >  Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc4-sched-devel.git-x86-latest.git #402 [<c03ac6f4>] _raw_spin_lock+0x134/0x140
> >   [<c08649be>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x5e/0x80
> >   [<c0b9fbfe>] ? espserial_init+0x2be/0x6e0
> >   [<c0b9fbfe>] espserial_init+0x2be/0x6e0
> >   [<c0b877a3>] kernel_init+0x83/0x260
> >   [<c0b9f940>] ? espserial_init+0x0/0x6e0
> >   [<c010416a>] ? restore_nocheck_notrace+0x0/0xe
> >   [<c0b87720>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x260
> >   [<c0b87720>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x260
> >   [<c0104507>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> >   =======================
> > 
> > kzalloc() is not the way to initialize spinlocks anymore.
> 
> Good catch, thanks.

Is this a regression from 2.6.24?

Rafael
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