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SubjectRe: 2.6.12-rc2 in_atomic() picks up preempt_disable()
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On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 20:10 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> 2.6.12-rc2, with CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_PREEMPT_DEBUG. The
> in_atomic() macro thinks that preempt_disable() indicates an atomic
> region so calls to __might_sleep() result in a stack trace.

but you're not allowed to schedule when preempt is disabled!

> preempt_count() returns 1, no soft or hard irqs are running and no
> spinlocks are held. It looks like there is no way to distinguish
> between the use of preempt_disable() in the lock functions (atomic) and
> preempt_disable() outside the lock functions (do nothing that might
> migrate me).

in what code are you seeing this?


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