From: Liu, Jinsong Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:11:16 +0000 (+0800) Subject: xen/mce: schedule a workqueue to avoid sleep in atomic context X-Git-Tag: v3.6-rc1~123^2~13 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b2a05516e42149a5e9f0f5aeba2c7fa9574b3f4;p=pandora-kernel.git xen/mce: schedule a workqueue to avoid sleep in atomic context copy_to_user might sleep and print a stack trace if it is executed in an atomic spinlock context. Like this: (XEN) CMCI: send CMCI to DOM0 through virq BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/konradinux/kernel.h:199 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4581, name: mcelog Pid: 4581, comm: mcelog Tainted: G O 3.5.0-rc1upstream-00003-g149000b-dirty #1 [] __might_sleep+0xda/0x100 [] xen_mce_chrdev_read+0xab/0x140 [] vfs_read+0xc5/0x190 [] sys_read+0x4c/0x90 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16 This patch schedule a workqueue for IRQ handler to poll the data, and use mutex instead of spinlock, so copy_to_user sleep in atomic context would not occur. Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Suggested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk --- Reading git-diff-tree failed