1.Submit a request to a device in 'unlocked_ioctl()' and issue 'wait_event_interruptible
_timeout()' for 10 jiffies. There can be many
such outstanding requests issued by different processes and all these
are placed in a queue.
2.The 'wake_up_interruptible()' is issued either from tasklet or a poll-thread which polls on the status of the request.
3. The request queue is protected using 'spin_lock_bh/spin_unlock_bh' to be softIRQ safe. I'm stating this to point that 'spin_lock_irqsave/spin_lock_irqrestore' is issued only with waitQ.
If i either not use 'unlocked_ioctl()' i.e. use ioctl() (or)comment out 'wake_up_interruptible()' call I don't see the crash. Is wake_up_interruptible SMP safe???
Regards,
kiran
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[root@localhost ~]# ------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at include/asm/spinlock.h:112!
invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: pkp_drv(U) md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc dm_mod video button battery ac uhci_hcd hw_random i2c_i801 i2c_core shpchp e1000 e100 mii floppy sata_sil libata scsi_mod ext3 jbd
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c03087b0>] Tainted: P VLI
EFLAGS: 00210002 (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
EIP is at _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x26/0x30
eax: 00000001 ebx: cfefb810 ecx: cfefb810 edx: 00200292
esi: 00000000 edi: e0af0f20 ebp: 00000000 esp: c8ae2e10
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process swamp (pid: 5920, threadinfo=c8ae2000 task=c79d4a80)
Stack: badc0ded e0c8e1af 00000000 e0af0268 e0a86ef8 e0c87f46 00000802 00000000
00200286 e0a86ef8 00200286 e0c9c580 00000000 e0c87dd1 cfec1810 d028a810
00000000 bf9fc228 e0c8dab4 00000001 c8ae2000 3f37331a bf9fc228 e0c9c580
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2.The 'wake_up_interruptible()' is issued either from tasklet or a poll-thread which polls on the status of the request.
3. The request queue is protected using 'spin_lock_bh/spin_unlock_bh' to be softIRQ safe. I'm stating this to point that 'spin_lock_irqsave/spin_lock_irqrestore' is issued only with waitQ.
If i either not use 'unlocked_ioctl()' i.e. use ioctl() (or)comment out 'wake_up_interruptible()' call I don't see the crash. Is wake_up_interruptible SMP safe???
Regards,
kiran
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[root@localhost ~]# ------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at include/asm/spinlock.h:112!
invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: pkp_drv(U) md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc dm_mod video button battery ac uhci_hcd hw_random i2c_i801 i2c_core shpchp e1000 e100 mii floppy sata_sil libata scsi_mod ext3 jbd
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c03087b0>] Tainted: P VLI
EFLAGS: 00210002 (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
EIP is at _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x26/0x30
eax: 00000001 ebx: cfefb810 ecx: cfefb810 edx: 00200292
esi: 00000000 edi: e0af0f20 ebp: 00000000 esp: c8ae2e10
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process swamp (pid: 5920, threadinfo=c8ae2000 task=c79d4a80)
Stack: badc0ded e0c8e1af 00000000 e0af0268 e0a86ef8 e0c87f46 00000802 00000000
00200286 e0a86ef8 00200286 e0c9c580 00000000 e0c87dd1 cfec1810 d028a810
00000000 bf9fc228 e0c8dab4 00000001 c8ae2000 3f37331a bf9fc228 e0c9c580
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