Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967983AbXEHFig (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 01:38:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967977AbXEHFic (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 01:38:32 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:37839 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967951AbXEHFi3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 01:38:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 22:37:38 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Simon Arlott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: sleeping function called from invalid context at block/cfq-iosched.c (Was: Re: 2.6.21-mm1) Message-Id: <20070507223738.57d763da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070508053132.GZ31925@holomorphy.com> References: <20070505014955.8f3990b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463E3C50.9080207@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20070506135403.a6785f7d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463FAF1C.8060500@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20070507162349.0790706f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463FB697.6060902@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20070507163335.f5f5ea6e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463FFD0A.2050708@goop.org> <20070507222409.2d597a86.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070508053132.GZ31925@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 29 On Mon, 7 May 2007 22:31:32 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, 07 May 2007 21:31:06 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> I'm using wli's 8k > >> stack + irq stack patches with good success though. > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:24:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > wlis are handy. > > I think Andi's handling the mergework on those patches, but I'll check > in to see if I should rediff vs. -mm or what if you want them. > > Andi, what's the verdict on those stack patches? > Whoa. The verdict is usually "don't use so much stack". Do we know what has gone wrong here? Last week Jens said he was picking up the ancient md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch, but he doesn't seem to have done so yet. XFS is frequently implicated. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/