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

[Mike Anderson]

Andreas Boman [[e-mail]] wrote:
> 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
> 
Sorry, patmans pointed out the issue to me this morning. I was also
in a hurray this morning and grab a .config with CONFIG_PREEMPT off.

I am running now with PREEMPT and moved the driverfs calls to the other
side of the lock give me a few more minutes of testing and I will resend.

-andmike
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