The patch titled kexec warning fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kexec-warning-fix.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kexec warning fix From: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> This fixes a couple of compiler warnings, and adds paranoia checks as well. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kexec.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/kexec.c~kexec-warning-fix kernel/kexec.c --- a/kernel/kexec.c~kexec-warning-fix +++ a/kernel/kexec.c @@ -995,7 +995,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned image = xchg(dest_image, image); out: - xchg(&kexec_lock, 0); /* Release the mutex */ + locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 0); /* Release the mutex */ + BUG_ON(!locked); kimage_free(image); return result; @@ -1061,7 +1062,8 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs); machine_kexec(kexec_crash_image); } - xchg(&kexec_lock, 0); + locked = xchg(&kexec_lock, 0); + BUG_ON(!locked); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from roland@xxxxxxxxxx are posix-timers-fix-clock_nanosleep-doesnt-return-the-remaining-time-in-compatibility-mode-2.patch posix-timers-fix-the-flags-handling-in-posix_cpu_nsleep-2.patch has_stopped_jobs-cleanup.patch __dequeue_signal-cleanup.patch kexec-warning-fix.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html