Re: N_PPP_SYNC ldisc BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context

From: Jarek Poplawski
Date: Wed Sep 30 2009 - 16:29:29 EST


Tilman Schmidt wrote, On 09/30/2009 08:55 PM:

> Alan Cox schrieb:
>>> [<c026d39b>] tty_unthrottle+0x10/0x38
>>> [<f8dcc31f>] ppp_sync_receive+0x168/0x170 [ppp_synctty]
>>> [<f8fbb9ce>] handle_minor_recv+0x187/0x1cd [capi]
>>> [<f8fbc19b>] capi_recv_message+0x1d9/0x24e [capi]
>> Really need to see the rest of the call trace to be sure
>
> There wasn't more than what I posted. I had six of them, they looked all
> identical, and all of them ended after the kernel_thread_helper line.
...
> Why then does mutex_lock() complain?


Maybe it doesn't matter here, but this:

> INFO: lockdep is turned off.
suggests there was some lockdep issue/warning earlier.


Jarek P.
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