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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:23:54 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.39 "Sleeping function called from illegal context at 
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Andreas Boman wrote:
> 
> * Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com) wrote:
> > Helge Hafting wrote:
> > >
> > > ..
> > >  [<c01146c4>]__might_sleep+0x54/0x60
> > >  [<c012dca0>]kmalloc+0x4c/0x130
> > >  [<c010b6b2>]sys_ioperm+0x82/0x11c
> > >  [<c0106fbb>]syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> > >
> >
> >
> > You up to trying this fix?
> >
> 
> This patch on 2.3.40+xfsfix didnt change anything here, while my trace
> does look different it seems to be related.

It's different.

> I get a similar oops when ide initializes during boot,

It's not an oops.  It's just a warning.

> 
>  Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at slab.c:1374

See?  I added "Debug:" to the message ;)

>  Call Trace:
>   [__kmem_cache_alloc+255/272]__kmem_cache_alloc+0xff/0x110
>   [get_vm_area+38/256]get_vm_area+0x26/0x100
>   [__vmalloc+75/304]__vmalloc+0x4b/0x130
>   [vmalloc+34/48]vmalloc+0x22/0x30
>   [<e08fe502>]sg_init+0x82/0x130 [sg]
>   [<e09022c7>].rodata.str1.1+0x23/0x2b0 [sg]
>   [<e0903be0>]sg_fops+0x0/0x58 [sg]
>   [<e0903b20>]sg_template+0x0/0x94 [sg]

That is known - sg_init() is blatantly calling vmalloc under
write_lock_irqsave().
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