Re: "scheduling while atomic" ?

[Mateusz Berezecki]

Steven Rostedt wrote:

>I assume that you call register_netdev in your module. Since this was
>running insmod, this is probably called from the module_init. So what
>reason do you have a lock from beginning to end?  Looking at this, you
>can't call register_netdev while holding a spin_lock since it looks like
>it will schedule.  So the fix is to release whatever spin lock that you
>have before calling register_netdev.
>  
>
Thank you for your help. This actually works ;-)

--mb
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