From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>,
javier@tudela.mad.ttd.net,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: inappropriate use of in_atomic()
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:40:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050310204006.48286d17.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
in_atomic() is not a reliable indication of whether it is currently safe
to call schedule().
This is because the lockdepth beancounting which in_atomic() uses is only
accumulated if CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. in_atomic() will return false inside
spinlocks if CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.
Consequently the use of in_atomic() in the below files is probably
deadlocky if CONFIG_PREEMPT=n:
arch/ppc64/kernel/viopath.c
drivers/net/irda/sir_kthread.c
drivers/net/wireless/airo.c
drivers/video/amba-clcd.c
drivers/acpi/osl.c
drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_transactions.c
drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
Note that the same beancounting is used for the "scheduling while atomic"
warning, so if the code calls schedule with locks held, we won't get a
warning. Both are tied to CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.
The kernel provides no reliable runtime way of detecting whether or not it
is safe to call schedule().
Can we please find ways to change the above code to not use in_atomic()?
Then we can whack #ifndef MODULE around its definition to reduce
reoccurrences. Will probably rename it to something more scary as well.
Thanks.
next reply other threads:[~2005-03-11 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-11 4:40 Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-11 4:53 ` Roland Dreier
2005-03-11 12:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-11 6:25 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-03-11 9:11 ` [ACPI] " Jan Kasprzak
2005-03-11 9:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-11 12:26 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-12 0:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-12 0:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-31 0:20 ` Adrian Bunk
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