Re: 4.9-rc7: (forcedeth?) BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/irq/manage.c:110

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Nov 29 2016 - 14:50:51 EST


On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
>> But none of this looks new. I don't see _anything_ in any of these
>> areas that has changed since 4.8.
>>
>> Which is why I suspect you changed something in your setup wrt
>> netconsole or your kernel config?
>
> No changes that I could see. Only answered oldconfig questions, diff
> below. /etc/default/grub is from May so not changed recently. Just
> verified that 4.8.0 dmesg did not contain these warnings.

Hmm. I wonder if it might just be timing (the netpoll_poll_dev() thing
is only called conditionally, and it depends on magic details and I
guess you might just have gotten unlucky).

But it would be good if you can bisect it...

Linus