When the kernel is oopsing no realtime guarantees are needed anymore and 
sleeping
here is unsafe; e.g. in case the crash site had interrupts disabled.

- Convert die_lock to a raw spinlock
- Really disable interrupts

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Index: linux-2.6.23-rc4-rt1/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.23-rc4-rt1.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc4-rt1/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ void out_of_line_bug(void)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(out_of_line_bug);
 #endif
 
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(die_lock);
+static __raw_spinlock_t die_lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
 static int die_owner = -1;
 static unsigned int die_nest_count;
 
@@ -479,13 +479,13 @@ unsigned __kprobes long oops_begin(void)
        oops_enter();
 
        /* racy, but better than risking deadlock. */
-       local_irq_save(flags);
+       raw_local_irq_save(flags);
        cpu = smp_processor_id();
-       if (!spin_trylock(&die_lock)) { 
+       if (!__raw_spin_trylock(&die_lock)) { 
                if (cpu == die_owner) 
                        /* nested oops. should stop eventually */;
                else
-                       spin_lock(&die_lock);
+                       __raw_spin_lock(&die_lock);
        }
        die_nest_count++;
        die_owner = cpu;
@@ -499,12 +499,10 @@ void __kprobes oops_end(unsigned long fl
        die_owner = -1;
        bust_spinlocks(0);
        die_nest_count--;
-       if (die_nest_count)
-               /* We still own the lock */
-               local_irq_restore(flags);
-       else
+       if (!die_nest_count)
                /* Nest count reaches zero, release the lock. */
-               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&die_lock, flags);
+               __raw_spin_unlock(&die_lock);
+       raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
        if (panic_on_oops)
                panic("Fatal exception");
        oops_exit();
-
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