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From: "Walter L. Wimer III" <walt.wimer@timesys.com>
To: "Steve Iribarne (GMail)" <netstv@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: what does this mean?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:42:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147801367.14881.4.camel@excalibur.timesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147801106.14881.2.camel@excalibur.timesys.com>

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:38 -0400, Walter L. Wimer III wrote:
> Check to make sure that in your interrupt handler you are not calling
> something that can sleep.  E.g. sleep(), usleep(), kmalloc(),
> vmalloc(), etc. 

Also watch out for semaphore operations such as down() and
down_interruptible().  They can sleep too.


Walt

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-16 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-16 16:51 what does this mean? Steve Iribarne (GMail)
2006-05-16 17:38 ` Walter L. Wimer III
2006-05-16 17:42   ` Walter L. Wimer III [this message]
2006-05-16 18:04     ` Steve Iribarne (GMail)

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