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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Fw: blk_cleanup_queue, sleep in invalid context
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:56:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060105005609.GA17604@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060104165300.23fb4ce8.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:53:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Looks like scsi is the culprit here - doing put_device() from softirq.
> 
> Greg, what are the rules here?  Can we enforce them with a highest-level
> might_sleep()?

You mean, put a might_sleep() in put_device()?  Yes, I can do that, as
that function might sleep.  SCSI is the culprit here, and I thought that
the scsi developers had fixed this up already.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05  0:53 Fw: blk_cleanup_queue, sleep in invalid context Andrew Morton
2006-01-05  0:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-01-05  1:12   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-05 12:52     ` Olaf Hering
2006-01-05 17:08   ` James Bottomley

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