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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Scheduling while atomic (2.6.10-rc3-bk13)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:57:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103576264.1252.87.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412201152.16329.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 11:52 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 20 December 2004 10:48 am, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > 
> > David, it looks like you grab a spinlock, and then call msleep(20);
> > which causes this warning.
> > 
> > Care to fix it?
> 
> How bizarre ... I must have been tested that without spinlock
> debugging, for some reason.  Grr.  I usually leave that on,
> just to prevent stuff like this.
> 
> Here's a quick'n'dirty patch, msleep --> mdelay.  I'd rather
> not mdelay for that long, but this late in 2.6.10 it's safer.
> (And this is also what OHCI does in that same code path.)

Ugh.  20ms is WAY too long to hold a spinlock.  That's guaranteed to
cause audio skips.  Isn't there another way?

If OHCI calls mdelay(20) while holding a spinlock that needs to be
fixed.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-20 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-19 23:10 Scheduling while atomic (2.6.10-rc3-bk13) Lukas Hejtmanek
2004-12-20 18:48 ` Greg KH
2004-12-20 19:52   ` David Brownell
2004-12-20 20:57     ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-12-20 21:31       ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2004-12-20 21:32         ` Lee Revell
2004-12-21 19:20     ` Greg KH

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