The lock field in plist_head_init() is used for debugging the plist, and if a NULL is sent in it spews constant errors with debugging enabled .. So I added what looks like the correct spinlocks into the plist_head_init(). Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/workqueue.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.24/kernel/workqueue.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.24.orig/kernel/workqueue.c +++ linux-2.6.24/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ static void insert_wq_barrier(struct cpu INIT_WORK(&barr->work, wq_barrier_func); __set_bit(WORK_STRUCT_PENDING, work_data_bits(&barr->work)); - plist_head_init(&barr->worklist, NULL); + plist_head_init(&barr->worklist, &cwq->lock); plist_head_splice(&cwq->worklist, &barr->worklist); barr->cwq = cwq; init_completion(&barr->done); @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ init_cpu_workqueue(struct workqueue_stru cwq->wq = wq; spin_lock_init(&cwq->lock); - plist_head_init(&cwq->worklist, NULL); + plist_head_init(&cwq->worklist, &cwq->lock); init_waitqueue_head(&cwq->more_work); cwq->barrier = NULL; init_waitqueue_head(&cwq->work_done); -- -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html