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SubjectRe: 'BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled' when umounting NFS volume
FromDaniel Walker <>
Date11 Apr 2005 09:52:53 -0700
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 21:44, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> > I submitted a fix for this a while ago, I think ..
> > interruptible_sleep_on()'s are broken .. 
> 
> sleep_on() is a fundamentally broken interface, it only works on UP - 
> but there it _does_ rely on the behavior your patch removes. (i.e.  
> disabled interrupts until we hit schedule())
> 
> the PREEMPT_RT kernel makes the limitations of sleep_on() even more 
> apparent. The patch only removes the warning, it doesnt remove the race.  
> To remove the race, sleep_on() usage should be converted to something 
> else. (e.g. one of the wait_event() variants)

I know they aren't suppose to be used any more. However, there are 100+
of these calls in the kernel right now ..

Daniel

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