Re: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context

Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-19T01:02:46Z

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> | How spooky. now I got one too, (minus the noise).
> |
> | Call Trace:
> | [<c0120022>] __might_sleep+0x5b/0x5f
> | [<c010cf8a>] save_v86_state+0x6a/0x1f3
> | [<c010dad2>] handle_vm86_fault+0xa7/0x897
> | [<c010b2ed>] do_general_protection+0x0/0x93
> | [<c010a651>] error_code+0x2d/0x38
> | [<c0109623>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> |
> | By the looks of the logs, it happened as I restarted X, as theres
> | a bunch of mtrr messages right after this..
>
> I don't recall mtrr messages, but it is happening just after I start
> X and the window manager with me also.

It most probably is the XFree86 video bios thing running in vm86 mode.