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From: 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Emulex] queuecommands and GFP_ATOMIC
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:09:22 +0100
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:06:58PM -0400, Smart, James wrote:
> Actually, we are using spin_unlock_irq().  We're looking further...  I take
> it from your response, this calling sequence should not have been an issue ?

Umm, sorry.  I misread your mail, it clearly states:

> > > Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at 
> > mm/slab.c:1980
> > > in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> > > Call Trace:

so you do have irqs enabled but are still in some critical section.

Can you post a snapshot of the codebase you're testing with?