From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> -tip auto-testing started triggering this spinlock corruption message
> yesterday:
>
> [ 3.976213] calling acpi_rtc_init+0x0/0xd3
> [ 3.980213] ACPI Exception (utmutex-0263): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread F7C50000 could not acquire Mutex [3] [20080321]
> [ 3.992213] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, swapper/1
> [ 3.992213] lock: c2508dc4, .magic: 00000000, .owner: swapper/1, .owner_cpu: 0
This is apparently because some parts of ACPI, including mutexes, are not
initialized when acpi=off is passed to the kernel.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/glue.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/glue.c b/drivers/acpi/glue.c
index 2808dc6..9b227d4 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/glue.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/glue.c
@@ -333,6 +333,9 @@ static int __init acpi_rtc_init(void)
{
struct device *dev = get_rtc_dev();
+ if (acpi_disabled)
+ return 0;
+
if (dev) {
rtc_wake_setup();
rtc_info.wake_on = rtc_wake_on;
--
1.5.6.1.89.gd544
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