Re: "scheduling while atomic" ?

[Mateusz Berezecki <mateuszb@gmail.com>]

>When you say enable a lock, do you mean that you grabbed a lock?  Now if
>you grabbed a spinlock, it is really bad to then call schedule, since a
>another process that will grab that same spinlock will deadlock the CPU
>(on an SMP system). Since you are using locks (I'm also assuming that
>you are using spinlocks) I assume that you will be running this on a
>CONFIG_PREEMPT or SMP system.
>
>So the fix will be to release the lock before calling something that
>will schedule, and regrab it afterwards.
>  
>
Sorry for not being too precise. Yes, your assumptions were correct ;-)
I grab a lock using

spin_lock(&ieee->lock);

and release it using

spin_unlock(&ieee->lock);

there is quite a lot of debugging printk's inbetween. Can this be a cause ?