Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of May 30th 2008

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 00:44:38 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +					if (in_atomic())
> +						kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
> +					else
> +						kunmap(kmapped_page);

eek.

/*
 * Are we running in atomic context?  WARNING: this macro cannot
 * always detect atomic context; in particular, it cannot know about
 * held spinlocks in non-preemptible kernels.  Thus it should not be
 * used in the general case to determine whether sleeping is possible.
 * Do not use in_atomic() in driver code.
 */
#define in_atomic()	((preempt_count() & ~PREEMPT_ACTIVE) != PREEMPT_INATOMIC_BASE)

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