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Lee Revell 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. > You can call printk anywhere (except from the scheduler). Or if you're doing tricky things with preempt. > >>If so, NotGood(tm). > > > See above. If you think you can improve the situation, patches are > welcome, as always. > In this case, the patch would be to himself though. - 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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