From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sleeping function called from illegal context...
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:16:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020928021643.GB14866@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033174290.23958.17.camel@phantasy>
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:51:30PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:30, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > The system still seems to be running ok, but I think I'll turn off
> > CONFIG_PREEMPT just to be sure.
>
> Note this has nothing to do with kernel preemption. IDE explicitly
> sleeps while purposely holding a lock.
>
> It is just we do not have the ability to measure atomicity w/o
> preemption enabled - e.g. the debugging only works when it is enabled.
Yes, you are correct. Sorry for stating that. It's shaking out lots of
potential proplems :)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-28 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-27 23:30 Greg KH
2002-09-27 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-28 0:43 ` (more) " Luc Van Oostenryck
2002-09-28 1:22 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-28 0:44 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2002-09-28 1:24 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-28 2:15 ` Greg KH
2002-09-28 0:44 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2002-09-28 1:27 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-30 12:50 ` [Lksctp-developers] " Jon Grimm
2002-09-30 13:34 ` Jon Grimm
2002-09-28 2:04 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-28 3:06 ` Robert Love
2002-09-28 3:21 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-28 3:29 ` Robert Love
2002-09-28 10:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-28 17:06 ` Robert Love
2002-09-28 0:51 ` Robert Love
2002-09-28 2:16 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-09-28 14:54 ` John Levon
2002-09-28 17:05 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-28 17:24 ` John Levon
2002-09-28 18:27 ` Robert Love
2002-09-28 18:38 ` John Levon
2002-09-29 0:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
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