Re: bad: scheduling while atomic!: how bad?

From: David L
Date: Sat Jun 18 2005 - 17:50:59 EST


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On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 14:59 -0700, David L wrote:
> I'm seeing the message:
>
> bad: scheduling while atomic!
>
> I see this dozens of times when I'm writing to a nand flash device using a
> vendor-provided driver from Compulab in 2.6.8.1. Does this mean the driver
> has a bug or is incompatible with the preemptive configuration option? How
> bad is "bad"? Should I turn of the preemption option, ignore the message,
> or what?

can you post the sourcecode of the driver? it needs fixing...
It's on-line at:

http://www.compulab.co.il/686-developer.htm

under "Linux - kernel, drivers and patches".

After unzipping, it's in:

Drivers & Patches 2.6/Flash Disk/cl_fdrv.tgz

Cheers...

David

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