linux-kernel - Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/fork.c:385

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Message-ID: <465EE7BB.4050605@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 11:20:27 -0400
From:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/fork.c:385



Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Luck, Tony wrote:
>
>   
>>> Ahh okay. cscope will do that too.... But all have __exit.
>>>       
>> The trick is that one of them *shouldn't* have __exit.  With cscope
>> you'll have to use the "Find functions calling this function:"
>> mode to try and find the __init function that is calling an
>> __exit function.
>>     
>
> Urgh... Does it have to be that difficult?
> -
>   


Sometimes yes ... but in this case no.

I flipped config options on and off until I tracked the problem down 
into the loopback driver, and then manually ran modpost on 
drivers/block/built-in.o to reveal:

....Nothing. 

Something is borken in modpost because I found a bug in the loopback 
code which is a _REAL_ bug.

The -mm tree contains a patch which calls __exit loop_exit from __init 
loop_init .

(I'll submit this patch directly to Andrew in about 5 mins.  I'm 
including the patch here just so Christoph can grab it and continue on.)

Christoph, this is one less beer I owe you :) :) :)

Tony, the ia64 section mismatch "whack-a-mole" is far from over :(

WARNING: init/built-in.o(.sdata+0x48): Section mismatch: reference to 
.init.data: (after 'C.261.15930')
WARNING: init/built-in.o(.sdata+0x50): Section mismatch: reference to 
.init.data: (after 'C.261.15930')
WARNING: init/built-in.o(.sdata+0x58): Section mismatch: reference to 
.init.data:ino (after 'C.261.15930')
WARNING: arch/ia64/kernel/built-in.o(.sdata+0x0): Section mismatch: 
reference to .init.data:smp_boot_data before 'acpi_irq_model' (at offset 
-0x0)
WARNING: arch/ia64/kernel/built-in.o(.sdata+0x98): Section mismatch: 
reference to .init.data:rsvd_region (between 'ia64_sal' and 
'ia64_i_cache_stride_shift')
WARNING: arch/ia64/kernel/built-in.o(.sdata+0xa0): Section mismatch: 
reference to .init.data:rsvd_region (between 'ia64_sal' and 
'ia64_i_cache_stride_shift')
WARNING: arch/ia64/kernel/built-in.o(.sdata+0x228): Section mismatch: 
reference to .init.data:smp_boot_data (between 'cpu.25776' and 
'smp_num_siblings')
WARNING: arch/ia64/mm/built-in.o(.sdata+0x60): Section mismatch: 
reference to .init.data: (between 'hpage_shift' and 'first_time.26434')
WARNING: arch/ia64/mm/built-in.o(.sdata+0x68): Section mismatch: 
reference to .init.data: (between 'hpage_shift' and 'first_time.26434')
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.sdata+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to 
.init.data:early_node_map before 'sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio' (at 
offset -0x0)
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.sdata+0x8): Section mismatch: reference to 
.init.data:early_node_map before 'sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio' (at 
offset -0x0)
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.sdata+0x10): Section mismatch: reference to 
.init.data:early_node_map before 'sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio' (at 
offset -0x0)
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.sdata+0x238): Section mismatch: reference to 
.init.data: (between 'htlb_alloc_mask' and 'slab_early_init')
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.sdata+0x240): Section mismatch: reference to 
.init.data:initkmem_list3 (between 'htlb_alloc_mask' and 'slab_early_init')
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.sdata+0x248): Section mismatch: reference to 
.init.data:initkmem_list3 (between 'htlb_alloc_mask' and 'slab_early_init')
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.sdata+0x8b0): Section mismatch: reference 
to .init.data: (between 'scsi_null_device_strs' and 'fc_dev_loss_tmo')

P.

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