I did the allocation inside a lock, that's the real problem, not the GFP thing. Really sorry for the noise. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Auguste Mome <augustmome@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I added an allocation GFP_KERNEL inside a sysctl handler and got the error > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context > in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 723, name: sysctl > > Is it obvious error and I should use GFP_ATOMIC? > I guess yes, but it just happens since I switched to a 2.6.30 on ppc, and it did > not happen on 2.6.30 x86. > So I'm not sure if something is wrong on ppc, of if something changed > recently in sysctl, > or simply my code was wrong and the check has improved in memory system. > > Thanks, > Auguste. > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>