From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261867AbTDHRtj (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:49:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261977AbTDHRtj (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:49:39 -0400 Received: from jive.SoftHome.net ([66.54.152.27]:30142 "HELO jive.SoftHome.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261867AbTDHRth (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:49:37 -0400 From: Balram Adlakha To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.5.67 sleep function from illegal context Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 23:34:30 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304082334.30786.b_adlakha@softhome.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I get this repeatedly each second: Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at mm/slab.c:1658 Call Trace: [] __might_sleep+0x5f/0x72 [] kmalloc+0x88/0x8f [] accel_cursor+0xd5/0x2f8 [] fb_vbl_handler+0x82/0x9d [] scheduler_tick+0x2d9/0x2de [] update_process_times+0x46/0x50 [] cursor_timer_handler+0x0/0x3d [] cursor_timer_handler+0x21/0x3d [] run_timer_softirq+0x90/0x170 [] timer_interrupt+0x56/0x119 [] do_softirq+0xa1/0xa3 [] do_IRQ+0x10e/0x12b [] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 This happens in both 2.5.66 and 67 when I shut down X -- His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, "You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink."