> > I do not remember seeing any real failures, this was a theoretical > > window. So, we could potentially simply remove these locks until we > > see a real boot failure in some interrupt thread. The allocation has > > to be rather large as well. > > Yes please! We are really great at over complicating and over > engineering stuff based on theoretical issues and build on top of that > and make the code even more complex because nobody dares to re-evaluate > and so on. I will submit a patch (or revert) whichever is cleaner. Pasha