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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>