Re: 2.4.39 "Sleeping function called from illegal context at slab.c:1374"

Andreas Boman (aboman@nerdfest.org)
Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:44:37 -0400


* Mike Anderson (andmike@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> Andrew Morton [akpm@digeo.com] wrote:
> > That is known - sg_init() is blatantly calling vmalloc under
> > write_lock_irqsave().
>
> I had not already seen a patch for this.
>
> During Douglas Gilbert's time-off he connects when he can so it maybe a
> bit until he can address this.
>
> In the interim a quick patch below should fix the problem, and still
> provide for safe additions.
>
> I have done just minor testing on 2.5.40 using the sg_utils.

This seems to have fixed that particular warning, and got me a new one:

Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at /usr/src/linux-2.5.40/include/asm/semaphore.h:119
debb7e38 debb7e5c c016f69b c0356860 00000077 df354680 e0907020 e0907028
e0907020 debb7e78 c0241e06 e09070bc dfd563c8 e0907020 e0907028 debb6000
debb7e94 c0240348 e0907020 c01f483f e0907020 00000000 00000000 debb7ee4
Call Trace:
[driverfs_create_dir+75/240]driverfs_create_dir+0x4b/0xf0
[device_make_dir+70/144]device_make_dir+0x46/0x90
[device_register+184/368]device_register+0xb8/0x170
[sprintf+31/48]sprintf+0x1f/0x30
[<e08fe86a>]sg_attach+0x23a/0x450 [sg]
[<e09023ce>].rodata.str1.1+0x6a/0x2b0 [sg]
[<e0902387>].rodata.str1.1+0x23/0x2b0 [sg]
[<e0903ca0>]sg_fops+0x0/0x58 [sg]
[<e0903be0>]sg_template+0x0/0x94 [sg]
[scsi_register_device+269/336]scsi_register_device+0x10d/0x150
[<e08fecd3>]init_sg+0x23/0x60 [sg]
[<e0903be0>]sg_template+0x0/0x94 [sg]
[sys_init_module+1311/1648]sys_init_module+0x51f/0x670
[<e08fc060>]E __insmod_sg_O/lib/modules/2.5.40anb4/kernel/drivers/scsi/sg.o_M3D9B4C96_V132392+0x60/0x80 [sg]
[<e0902614>]__ksymtab+0x0/0x28 [sg]
[<e08fc060>]E __insmod_sg_O/lib/modules/2.5.40anb4/kernel/drivers/scsi/sg.o_M3D9B4C96_V132392+0x60/0x80 [sg]
[syscall_call+7/11]syscall_call+0x7/0xb

modprobe cdrom and sr_mod follow without problems, but then when i modprobe
ide-scsi:

scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi_eh_offline_sdevs: Device set offline - notready or command retry failedafter error recovery: host1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Vendor: Model: Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
hda: lost interrupt
ide-scsi: (IO,CoD) != (0,1) while issuing a packet command
hda: DMA disabled
hda: ATAPI reset complete

and the box is dead again.

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