On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Rick Brown <rick.brown.3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1) Is it allowable to sleep (while in process context) after a call to > preempt_disable()? Sleeping in the kernel with preemption disabled is considered to be a bug. So the scheduler will print an error and a stack dump when this happens. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs