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Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 15:07 -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Linux-2.6.9 will bug-check and halt if my code executes > > a printk() with a spin-lock held. > > > > Is this the intended behavior? > > Yes. printk() can sleep. No sleeping with a spinlock held. > printk() does not sleep and may be called from any context except a) NMI handlers and b) when holding a scheduler runqueue->lock while klogd is running. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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