Re: BUG: sleeping function called from illegal context

From: Jaroslav Kysela (perex@perex.cz)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 02:28:48 EST

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On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Daniel Ritz wrote:

> i saw that one after modprobe snd-sb16...
> kernel 2.5.67-bk
>
> rgds
> -daniel
>
>
> Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at mm/slab.c:1664
> Call Trace:
> [<c0120777>] __might_sleep+0x5f/0x68
> [<c0148f35>] kmalloc+0x61/0x174
> [<c01292f7>] __request_region+0x1b/0xb4
> [<c01293aa>] __check_region+0x1a/0x40
> [<c01dc533>] pnp_check_port+0x5f/0x13c

Adam, could you consider to use mutexes rather than spinlocks in your
code? I think that the pnp configuration is not time critical.

Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs

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