Hi Mikulas, On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 5:23 PM Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > BTW when using the udlfb driver as a console, I've got this warning. > vt_console_print takes a spinlock and then calls the framebuffer driver > that sleeps. > > The question is - whose fault is this? Could the console code somehow be > told to print characters without holding a spinlock? Or does it mean that > framebuffer drivers can't sleep? > > udlfb communicates through USB, so the sleeping is inevitable. > > Mikulas > > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:421 > in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 430, name: kworker/2:3 > 6 locks held by kworker/2:3/430: > #0: 000000001301127e ( (wq_completion)"events"){....} , at: process_one_work+0x17c/0x3a8 > #1: 00000000beacc951 ( (work_completion)(&(&dlfb->init_framebuffer_work)->work)){....} , at: process_one_work+0x17c/0x3a8 > #2: 00000000a402f826 ( registration_lock){....} , at: register_framebuffer+0x28/0x2c0 [fb] > #3: 0000000021cbe902 ( console_lock){....} , at: register_framebuffer+0x258/0x2c0 [fb] > #4: 0000000096d51735 ( console_owner){....} , at: console_unlock+0x174/0x500 > #5: 00000000faa7f206 ( printing_lock){....} , at: vt_console_print+0x60/0x3a0 > Preemption disabled at: [<ffffff8008403130>] vt_console_print+0x60/0x3a0 > CPU: 2 PID: 430 Comm: kworker/2:3 Not tainted 4.17.10-debug #3 > Hardware name: Marvell Armada 8040 MacchiatoBin/Armada 8040 MacchiatoBin, BIOS EDK II Jul 30 2018 > Workqueue: events dlfb_init_framebuffer_work [udlfb] > Call trace: > dump_backtrace+0x0/0x150 > show_stack+0x14/0x20 > dump_stack+0x8c/0xac > ___might_sleep+0x140/0x170 > __might_sleep+0x50/0x88 > __kmalloc+0x1b0/0x270 > xhci_urb_enqueue+0xa8/0x460 [xhci_hcd] > usb_hcd_submit_urb+0xc0/0x998 [usbcore] > usb_submit_urb+0x1e0/0x518 [usbcore] > dlfb_submit_urb+0x38/0x98 [udlfb] > dlfb_handle_damage.isra.4+0x1e0/0x210 [udlfb] > dlfb_ops_imageblit+0x28/0x38 [udlfb] > soft_cursor+0x15c/0x1d8 [fb] > bit_cursor+0x324/0x510 [fb] > fbcon_cursor+0x144/0x1a0 [fb] > hide_cursor+0x38/0xa0 > vt_console_print+0x334/0x3a0 > console_unlock+0x274/0x500 > register_framebuffer+0x22c/0x2c0 [fb] > dlfb_init_framebuffer_work+0x1ec/0x2fc [udlfb] > process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3a8 > worker_thread+0x44/0x418 > kthread+0x11c/0x120 > ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 This is sort of expected: you cannot do USB transfers from printk(). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel