Re: Sleeping function called from illegal context...

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
27 Sep 2002 20:51:30 -0400


On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:30, Greg KH wrote:

> The system still seems to be running ok, but I think I'll turn off
> CONFIG_PREEMPT just to be sure.

Note this has nothing to do with kernel preemption. IDE explicitly
sleeps while purposely holding a lock.

It is just we do not have the ability to measure atomicity w/o
preemption enabled - e.g. the debugging only works when it is enabled.

Robert Love

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