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DateWed, 18 Jan 2006 14:00:56 -0800 (PST)
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update
From"David S. Miller" <>
From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:57:30 -0500 (EST)

> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> > A notifier callee should not be sleeping, if anything it should be putting
> > its work onto a workqueue and completing it when it gets scheduled if it
> > has to do something that blocks.
>
> Sez who? If it's not documented in the kernel source, I don't believe
> it.

Many notifiers even get run from software interrupt context,
making sleeping illegal.

For example, IPV6 addresses can get added/removed from a device
in response to packets, and these operations trigger the
inet6addr_chain notifier in net/ipv6/addrconf.c

So sleeping in a notifier is indeed illegal.
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