From d1857056904d5f313f11184fcfa624652ff9620a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vegard Nossum Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:39:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: don't walk tables if ACPI was disabled 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 Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- Reading git-format-patch failed