Re: 2.5.72 oops (scheduling while atomic)

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

Hi Andrew,

I think you wanted to cc: me not the other Bart :-).

I am aware of the problem and looking for solution.
Reverting to old non-taskfile code seems to help
(say N to IDE "Taskfile IO" option available in 2.5.72).

Thanks,
--
Bartlomiej
Linux IDE Maintainer

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Greg Norris <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm getting the following oops when booting 2.5.72, preceded by a
> >  quite a few "bad: scheduling while atomic!" messages.  My .config and
> >  the decoded oops are attached.
>
> I was able to reproduce this.  Pid #0 (swapper) ends up with a preempt
> count of two and everything goes pear-shaped.
>
> This appears to be because you haven't selected any chip drivers in IDE
> config.  I selected PIIX and things started working better.
>
> Just to double-check I took my usual .config, enable preemption, disabled
> all IDE chip drivers and the same thing happened.  Over to Bart ;)
>
>
> Your .config seems broken in other ways btw.  Suggest you do
>
> 	cp arch/i386/defconfig .config
>
> and start again.