Hi, Uwe Kleine-König writes: > Hello, > > while triggering a reboot via sysrq on an ARM machine I saw a "BUG: > sleeping function called from invalid context" message (details below). > The reason is that the sysrq handler is calling the restart hook in irq > context. So what should be done about that? The obvious possiblities > are: > > a) ignore the problem as it won't result in problems (and maybe somehow > silence the warnign); or > b) make the restart hook atomic; or > c) assert sysrq not calling the hook in atomic mode > > What do you think? > This has been discussed earlier (with your participation) with 'a)' being the conclusion. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2010-December/033877.html Lothar Waßmann -- ___________________________________________________________ Ka-Ro electronics GmbH | Pascalstraße 22 | D - 52076 Aachen Phone: +49 2408 1402-0 | Fax: +49 2408 1402-10 Geschäftsführer: Matthias Kaussen Handelsregistereintrag: Amtsgericht Aachen, HRB 4996 www.karo-electronics.de | info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ___________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
