Re: debug: sleeping function...slab.c:2090

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Richard,

> > I got the debug statement below during boot.
> >
> > Environment:
> >    Pentium M, Thinkpad R40
> >    Debian unstable
> >    Linux 2.6.12-rc2
> >    Gnu C 3.3.5
> >    binutils 2.15
> >
> > Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2090
> > in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> > [<c0103707>] dump_stack+0x17/0x20
> > [<c0114e6c>] __might_sleep+0xac/0xc0
> > [<c014394e>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5e/0x60
> > [<c0142aa3>] kmem_cache_create+0xe3/0x570
> > [<c0268d39>] proto_register+0x99/0xc0
> > [<e0bea096>] inet6_init+0x16/0x1d0 [ipv6]
> > [<c0132902>] sys_init_module+0x172/0x230
> > [<c01030e5>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >
> 
> What module was being loaded at the time?

this is the ipv6 module and the unix module has the same problem. I
posted this problem already to the netdev mailing list and it seems that
Arnaldo is looking at it.

Regards

Marcel


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