linux-kernel - Re: [regression] Latest git has WARN

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Message-Id: <200810031755.55931.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:55:55 +0200
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [regression] Latest git has WARN_ON storm with e1000e driver

I got an idea,


kernel_init does lock_kernel (which does preempt_disable).
The kernel_unlock is done in init_post. As far as I can see, this happens 
after the driver init calls.

Christian
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