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Subject: Re: ubifs: BUG: scheduling while atomic - when runs out of space
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 08:19 -0500, Cal Page wrote:
> When I run a ubifs partition out of space, I get
>=20
>   BUG: scheduling while atomic: tar/0xffffffff/3324
>=20
> repeated until I stop trying to write the partition.
>=20
> What's wrong? Who went atomic in ubi/ubifs? If I wait a minute, disk=20
> usage drops from 100% to 75%, no doubt due to garbage collection.

Please, provide more information. You probably have stack dump at least?
Did you look at dmesg output?

What is your platform/kernel/flash/UBI volume size?

--=20
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
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