From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc3: BUG: scheduling while atomic: udevd/917/0x10000100
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:27:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090211092745.GB14265@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234342189.23438.113.camel@twins>
* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:32 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > There's a fourth possibility:
> >
> > - Given that it's udevd that does it - maybe we leaked a softirq preempt
> > count in some rare sysfs file, and it did not get discovered until the
> > next innocent piece of kernel code preempted?
> >
> > But i thought lockdep would already warn if we exited a syscall with locks
> > held or with a preempt count elevated - Peter?
>
> From a quick look it only checks task->lockdep_depth, in lockdep_sys_exit().
That could be broadened then i guess - there's never a good excuse for exiting a
syscall with an elevated preempt count.
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 8:09 Vegard Nossum
2009-02-11 8:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-11 8:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-11 9:27 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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