linux-kernel - Re: scheduling while atomic acpi_idle_enter

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Message-ID: <20091027165345.3237d3df@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:53:45 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: scheduling while atomic acpi_idle_enter_bm

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:40:03 -0700
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com> wrote:

> I get this when modprobing some module I am working on. I figured it
> was the module's fault but the EIP points to something else so I am
> not sure. I get the following repeating about 4 times on 2.6.32-rc5:


you can get this if your own code leaves interrupts disabled in a
kernel thread and then lets the cpu go idle...


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