On 2/24/06, Andreas Gaupmann <andreas.gaupmann@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > On Friday 24 February 2006 12:20, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > > > code:89 5a 04 89 13 89 43 04 89 18 5b c3 8d 76 00 81 f9 ff 3f 00 > > > <0> kernel panic : Aiee,kernel interrupt handler! > > > IN interrupt handler- not syncing. > > > > Looking at this message alone, it is likely that you are sleeping inside > > interrupt context. Solution: don't use sleeping function...use non > > sleeping delay function if you really need to delay something here. > > > Can you give an example for a non-sleeping delay function? udelay(), mdelay()? I think he meant busy-wait as opposed to sleep. Usually in the kernel delay means busy-wait and sleep means invoking the scheduler. > Are such functions a solution to "schedule while atomic" errors caused by the > use of schedule_timeout() in atomic operations? Probably. Thanks, Nish -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
