Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/fork.c:385

David Chinner
2007-05-30T03:30:41Z

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:44:16AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > Saw this when running strace -f on a script on 2.6.21 on ia64:
> > >
> > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/fork.c:385
> > > in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> ... snip ...
> > > I could reproduce it via 'strace -f sleep 1'
> > >
> >
> > I'd say this is specific to ia64. Someone would have spotted it on
> > x86 by now.
>
> I tried the "strace -f sleep 1" on 2.6.22-rc2, and I didn't see this "BUG"
> there. Can you try your other test cases on the latest kernel. If it has
> already been fixed we can see about identifying the patch for possible backport
> to 2.6.21.stable

Sorry for taking so long to get back to this - I still see this in
2.6.22-rc2.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group