do_sched_yield() invokes schedule() with interrupts disabled which is not allowed. This goes back to the pre git era to commit a6efb709806c ("[PATCH] irqlock patch 2.5.27-H6") in the history tree.
Reenable interrupts and remove the misleading comment which "explains" it. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> --- kernel/sched/core.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -6094,12 +6094,8 @@ static void do_sched_yield(void) schedstat_inc(rq->yld_count); current->sched_class->yield_task(rq); - /* - * Since we are going to call schedule() anyway, there's - * no need to preempt or enable interrupts: - */ preempt_disable(); - rq_unlock(rq, &rf); + rq_unlock_irq(rq, &rf); sched_preempt_enable_no_resched(); schedule();