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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sleeping function called from illegal context...
Date: 27 Sep 2002 20:51:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033174290.23958.17.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020927233044.GA14234@kroah.com>

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:30, Greg KH wrote:

> The system still seems to be running ok, but I think I'll turn off
> CONFIG_PREEMPT just to be sure.

Note this has nothing to do with kernel preemption.  IDE explicitly
sleeps while purposely holding a lock.

It is just we do not have the ability to measure atomicity w/o
preemption enabled - e.g. the debugging only works when it is enabled.

	Robert Love


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-28  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-27 23:30 Sleeping function called from illegal context Greg KH
2002-09-27 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-28  0:43   ` (more) " Luc Van Oostenryck
2002-09-28  1:22     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-28  0:44   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2002-09-28  1:24     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-28  2:15       ` Greg KH
2002-09-28  0:44   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2002-09-28  1:27     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-30 12:50       ` [Lksctp-developers] " Jon Grimm
2002-09-30 13:34       ` Jon Grimm
2002-09-28  2:04   ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-28  3:06     ` Robert Love
2002-09-28  3:21       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-28  3:29         ` Robert Love
2002-09-28 10:06         ` Alan Cox
2002-09-28 17:06           ` Robert Love
2002-09-28  0:51 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-09-28  2:16   ` Greg KH
2002-09-28 14:54   ` John Levon
2002-09-28 17:05     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-28 17:24       ` John Levon
2002-09-28 18:27         ` Robert Love
2002-09-28 18:38           ` John Levon
2002-09-29  0:50           ` William Lee Irwin III

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