Re: [IDE] sleeping function called from illegal context at

[Robert Love]

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 04:36, Andrey Panin wrote:

> looks like i tracked down yet another instance of this already famous 
> message, :)
> but i don't know how to fix it.
> 
> This message produced by IDE driver is IMHO 
> caused by ide_init_queue() function called while holding
> ide_lock spinlock in the 
> init_irq() function (ide-probe.c).
> 
> Then ide_init_queue() calls blk_init_queue() 
> and we have a this call chain:
>     ide_init_queue() -> blk_init_queue() -> 
> blk_init_free_list() -> kmem_cache_alloc()

This is known, but thank you anyhow.

> What can we do to fix this ?

Question of the year :)

	Robert Love