From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:19:00 -0500 Message-ID: <200701051219.00509.lenb@kernel.org> References: <49814.213.30.172.234.1159357906.squirrel@webmail.popies.net> <20070104191512.GC25619@inferi.kami.home> <459E1909.9020703@fnxweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:51018 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422633AbXAERTy (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:19:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <459E1909.9020703@fnxweb.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Bird Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, malattia@linux.it On Friday 05 January 2007 04:23, Neil Bird wrote: > But last time I tried (couple of kernel releases ago) it crashes on > start-up; I think it's something to do with kmallocs in the ACPI code tyhat > I'm calling that aren't allowed in certain contexts, buit I have no control > over what kmallocs are used in acpi. running the AML interpreter in interrupt context would be a no-no. I thought we had deferred the notify handlers so that they wouldn't run in interrupt context, but maybe there is a case here where that does not happen. -Len