Hi,

ec is locked only in acpi_ec_transaction, and it is only once in your stack.
I doubt that this patch could change something, but worth a try...
Is bisect finds something?

Regards,
   Alex.
Dominik Brodowski wrote:
Hi,

Current kernels (e.g. 2.6.20-git-as-of-yesterday) don't boot for me, and
it seems like ACPI is the cause: the last thing I can see in the log is

swapper/1 is trying to acquire lock
        &ec->lock

but task is already holding lock
        &ec->lock

Snippets from the call trace:

acpi_ec_transaction
acpi_ec_read
acpi_ec_space_handler
acpi_ev_address_space_dispatch
acpi_ex_access_region
acpi_ex_field_datum_
acpi_ex_extract_from_field
...
acpi_ex_ns_evaluate
acpi_ev_execute_reg_method
acpi_ev_reg_run
acpi_ns_walk_namespace
acpi_ev_execute_reg_methods
acpi_install_address_space_handler
acpi_ec_start
acpi_start_single_object
acpi_device_probe
really_probe
...
bus_add_driver
...
acpi_ec_init



Ideas? Patches?

Thanks,
        Dominik
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diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
index 743ce27..8f5aaf7 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -280,8 +280,10 @@ static int acpi_ec_transaction(struct ac
        mutex_lock(&ec->lock);
        if (ec->global_lock) {
                status = acpi_acquire_global_lock(ACPI_EC_UDELAY_GLK, &glk);
-               if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
+               if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+                       mutex_unlock(&ec->lock);
                        return -ENODEV;
+               }
        }
 
        /* Make sure GPE is enabled before doing transaction */

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