The patch titled start_kernel: test if irq's got enabled early, barf, and disable them again has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was start_kernel-test-if-irqs-got-enabled-early-barf-and-disable-them-again.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: start_kernel: test if irq's got enabled early, barf, and disable them again From: Ard van Breemen <ard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The calls made by parse_parms to other initialization code might enable interrupts again way too early. Having interrupts on this early can make systems PANIC when they initialize the IRQ controllers (which happens later in the code). This patch detects that irq's are enabled again, barfs about it and disables them again as a safety net. [akpm@xxxxxxxx: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Ard van Breemen <ard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- init/main.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN init/main.c~start_kernel-test-if-irqs-got-enabled-early-barf-and-disable-them-again init/main.c --- a/init/main.c~start_kernel-test-if-irqs-got-enabled-early-barf-and-disable-them-again +++ a/init/main.c @@ -538,6 +538,11 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void parse_args("Booting kernel", command_line, __start___param, __stop___param - __start___param, &unknown_bootoption); + if (!irqs_disabled()) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were " + "enabled *very* early, fixing it\n"); + local_irq_disable(); + } sort_main_extable(); trap_init(); rcu_init(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are pci-prevent-down_read-when-pci_devices-is-empty.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