Re: Fw: blk_cleanup_queue, sleep in invalid context

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Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:53:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Looks like scsi is the culprit here - doing put_device() from softirq.
> > 
> > Greg, what are the rules here?  Can we enforce them with a highest-level
> > might_sleep()?
> 
> You mean, put a might_sleep() in put_device()?  Yes, I can do that, as
> that function might sleep.

Yep.  And in any other high-level device management entrypoints which you
can think of.

>  SCSI is the culprit here, and I thought that
> the scsi developers had fixed this up already.

It seems to be resisting arrest.
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