Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic

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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Himanshu Chauhan
<hschauhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:44:25AM +0530, Vikash Kumar wrote:
>>
>> BUG: scheduling while atomic: RAID_LAZY_WRITE/102/0x00000205
>> no locks held by RAID_LAZY_WRITE/102.
>>
>
> Almost *always* a problem when doing stuff which can sleep while holding a spinlock.
> As you also verified that :)
>
> - Himanshu
>

Yes that's correct. That's why I don't hold any locks while Issuing
IO. But what I missed was that callbacks generated by block IO layer
or async XOR operation in linux actually disable preemption and so IO
couldn't be issued from the callbacks.

-Vikash

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