Re: 2.5.69+bk: "sleeping function called from illegal context" on

[Paul Fulghum]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 12:21, Alex Riesen wrote:
> Paul Fulghum, Tue, May 13, 2003 17:31:01 +0200:
> > Similar to this patch for synclink_cs.c:
> ...
> > -		    mod_timer(&link->release, jiffies + HZ/20);
> > +		    mgslpc_release((u_long)link);
> 
> Tried that. This time the trace looks different:
> 
> Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at include/asm/semaphore.h:119
> Call Trace:
>  [<c0118bc8>] __might_sleep+0x58/0x70
>  [<c6a31eb6>] +0x82/0x58c [pcmcia_core]
>  [<c6a2d193>] undo_irq+0x23/0x90 [pcmcia_core]
>  [<c6a31eb6>] +0x82/0x58c [pcmcia_core]
>  [<c6a302f8>] pcmcia_release_irq+0xb8/0xe0 [pcmcia_core]
>  [<c6a25e00>] pcnet_release+0x0/0x80 [pcnet_cs]
>  [<c6a312d5>] CardServices+0x155/0x260 [pcmcia_core]
>  [<c6a312c9>] CardServices+0x149/0x260 [pcmcia_core]
>  [<c6a25e56>] pcnet_release+0x56/0x80 [pcnet_cs]
>  [<c01224a4>] run_timer_softirq+0xc4/0x1a0
>  [<c010a8b3>] handle_IRQ_event+0x33/0xf0
>  [<c011e889>] do_softirq+0xa9/0xb0
>  [<c010abb5>] do_IRQ+0x125/0x150
>  [<c01093a8>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20

Hmmm... the pcnet_release() function is still being called
from a timer context.

Looking at pcnet_cs.c I see that in function pcnet_close()
that the release function is being being run from
a timer. Try changing that instance to calling pcnet_release()
directly as you did in the CS_EVENT handler.

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