skipping locks, mutex_owned, usb

[Andriy Gapon]

on 26/08/2011 21:28 Andriy Gapon said the following:
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> Another observation is that when the kernel code calls into syscons code
> (kern_cons.c) it doesn't acquire the Giant.  It seems that the kernel calls
> syscons input routines only in some very special situations like very early boot
> (pause after each line option), late shutdown stage ("press any key to...") and
> ddb command prompt.
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> Hmm, but it's actually the kbd poll(TRUE) call itself that can be racy-ish...

As I was going to argue with myself that there actually should not be any race
here, because interrupts should already be disabled in the special cases, I
suddenly realized that I forgot about yet another special case, which is
actually not special enough - the mountroot prompt.  And I think that this is
the case which is the most troublesome comparing to all other cases.

-- 
Andriy Gapon