Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754545AbYJCP4S (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752110AbYJCP4E (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:56:04 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:34944 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752398AbYJCP4D (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:56:03 -0400 From: Christian Borntraeger To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [regression] Latest git has WARN_ON storm with e1000e driver Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:55:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jesse Brandeburg , Arjan van de Ven References: <200810031041.49350.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> <200810031720.53923.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810031755.55931.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 436 Lines: 13 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/