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From: Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>
To: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:3044
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:23:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <494A249E.9070405@tausq.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494983DE.2050105@gmx.de>

i knew there was a reason why this was a stack variable before... ;-) 
(of course, that is not ideal either)

randolph

Helge Deller wrote:
> Since unwind_frame_init_from_blocked_task() may be called from
> interrupt/in_atomic context, it needs to kmalloc() memory with
> GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> This fixes this warning (ShowTasks called from sysrq handler):
> 
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:3044
> in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 2119, name: miniruby
> Backtrace:
>  [<10132e78>] __might_sleep+0x4c/0x118
>  [<1018f644>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2c/0xb4
>  [<1011bae0>] unwind_frame_init_from_blocked_task+0x30/0xa0
>  [<1010fd3c>] parisc_show_stack+0x3c/0xac
>  [<10132c7c>] show_state_filter+0x80/0xd8
>  [<102f4074>] __handle_sysrq+0xd0/0x1b0
>  [<102f9558>] receive_chars+0x22c/0x318
>  [<102f9940>] serial8250_handle_port+0x40/0x88
>  [<102f9a8c>] serial8250_interrupt+0x104/0x10c
>  [<10161920>] handle_IRQ_event+0x44/0x94
>  [<10161acc>] __do_IRQ+0x15c/0x1dc
>  [<102c442c>] superio_interrupt+0x74/0xa8
>  [<10161920>] handle_IRQ_event+0x44/0x94
>  [<10161acc>] __do_IRQ+0x15c/0x1dc
>  [<10110fb4>] do_cpu_irq_mask+0x90/0xbc
>  [<10114068>] intr_return+0x0/0x4
> 
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> 


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17 22:57 [PATCH] fix BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:3044 Helge Deller
2008-12-17 23:41 ` Kyle McMartin
2008-12-18 10:23 ` Randolph Chung [this message]

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