linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: don't take a mutex from interrupt context

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Message-ID: <20080122170700.GA6245@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:07:00 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: don't take a mutex from interrupt context


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> > WARNING: at kernel/mutex.c:134 mutex_lock_nested+0x277/0x290()

> Subject: sched: don't take a mutex from interrupt context
> 
> print_cfs_stats is callable from interrupt context (sysrq), hence it 
> should not take mutexes. Change it to use RCU since the task group 
> data is RCU freed anyway.

thanks Peter, applied this to sched-devel.git.

	Ingo
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