Re: Defination of Flag CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP in AS4 UP1

[Christoph Hellwig]

What's AS UP1 in your subject?

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:37:07PM +0530, shahid shaikh wrote:
> Hi all,
> While doing insmod for a psuedo driver, kernel is dumping a stack because
> sleep function is called.
> My init_module function for psuedo driver calls add_disk to register admin
> device.
> In add_disk(), kernel is allocating memory using kmalloc with flag
> GFP_KERNEL. This is hardcoded in kernel code for add_disk.
> 
> Whenever kernel inserts any module or driver it disable all interrupts.

No, it doesn't you must be doing it yourself somewhere, probably using
a spin_lock_irq or spin_lock_irqsave.  If you can't find the problem
yourself post your module source to the kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx list
the deals with such basic problems.

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