Hi,

Le Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:47:56 -0400,
"Felipe Balbi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :

> Could anyone explain me a bit about sleeping inside mutex_locks???
> afaik this shouldn't be a problem... but I'm getting a "BUG: sleeping
> function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:86"

You're trying to take a mutex, while you already hold a spinlock, or
while you're inside an interrupt handler. In both of these contexts,
you're not allowed to sleep.

For more information, you can also read
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch05.pdf.

But of course, posting your code, or at least, a link to it, would help.

Sincerly,

Thomas
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