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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: David L <idht4n@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bad: scheduling while atomic!: how bad?
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:10:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1119132601.5871.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F697F218C7E4E45B78BCDA84F70@phx.gbl>

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On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 14:59 -0700, David L wrote:
> I'm seeing the message:
> 
> bad: scheduling while atomic!
> 
> I see this dozens of times when I'm writing to a nand flash device using a 
> vendor-provided driver from Compulab in 2.6.8.1.  Does this mean the driver 
> has a bug or is incompatible with the preemptive configuration option?  How 
> bad is "bad"?  Should I turn of the preemption option, ignore the message, 
> or what?

can you post the sourcecode of the driver? it needs fixing...


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-18 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-18 21:59 bad: scheduling while atomic!: how bad? David L
2005-06-18 22:10 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-06-18 22:49   ` David L
2005-06-18 22:52     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-18 23:19       ` David L
2005-06-18 23:46         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-18 22:18 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-18 22:33   ` David L
2005-06-19  0:50     ` Lee Revell

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