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

David Chinner
2007-05-31T00:53:41Z

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:11:17PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Hmmm - I wonder if my tree is screwed up in some weird way. I'm seeing link
> > warnings as well:
> >
> > WARNING: init/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .sdata after 'root_mountflags' (at offset 0x38)
>
> I thought that I'd got the section mis-match warnings down to
> just one (and that was in ACPI code, so I sent a patch to Len
> for it).
>
> Are you building from defconfig, or one of the standard ones?

sn2defconfig + kernel debug option plus xfs options.

> But I've had other complaints that these Section mismatch warnings
> are still showing up in kernels built from the "standard" config
> files (arch/ia64/configs/*) ... which I'm not seeing. So I'm more
> than a little confused about this.
>
> These errors are unlikely to be related to the strace bug that
> you've reported. I'll try to pound on this some more when I'm
> back on the same continent as my test machines.

Ok - no real hurry - they don't appear to be causing me any problems
except build noise....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group