[BUG] Invalid sleeping function call in 2.6.16-rc1-mm3

From: Peter Williams
Date: Thu Jan 26 2006 - 00:28:28 EST


I get the following error report early during system start up:

Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /mudlark/wrk/KERNELS/Linux/MM-2.6.X/kernel/mutex.c:259
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c010648d>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c01064a7>] dump_stack+0x17/0x20
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c011eacc>] __might_sleep+0x8c/0xa0
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c02ce2a5>] mutex_lock_interruptible+0x15/0x30
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c01413ec>] __lock_cpu_hotplug+0x4c/0x60
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c014140d>] lock_cpu_hotplug_interruptible+0xd/0x10
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c0141504>] register_cpu_notifier+0x14/0x40
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c03f1dad>] page_alloc_init+0xd/0x10
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c03de3ac>] start_kernel+0x13c/0x3f0
Jan 26 16:18:54 origma kernel: [17179569.184000] [<c0100210>] 0xc0100210

The message appears just the once and no similar messages have been seen. It is repeatable.

Peter
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