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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [DEBUG INFO]IPv6: sleeping function called from invalid context.
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:35:57 +0100
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* YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> 2005-11-18 09:47
> In article <437D23EB.4020204@21cn.com> (at Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:44:27 +0800), Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com> says:
> 
> > I get follow message when switch to single user mode and the kernel version is 2.6.15-rc1-git5.
> :
> > Nov 18 08:26:23 localhost kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2472
> > Nov 18 08:26:23 localhost kernel: in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> > Nov 18 08:26:23 localhost kernel:  [<c0149d5a>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5a/0x70
> > Nov 18 08:26:23 localhost kernel:  [<e0f47336>] inet6_dump_fib+0xb6/0x110 [ipv6]
> 
> I remember someone replaced GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL...

I did. I think it was right, why would an allocation be necessary on
the second call to inet6_dump_fib()? The walker allocated in process
context on the first call should be reused from cb->args[0].