On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 05:30:28PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > Hi Al, > > > I got a boot warning on commit > > > > tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal.git > > execve2 > > head: 1ade99215ed3c334a544b9e1773602ff0f0251ab > > commit: 1ade99215ed3c334a544b9e1773602ff0f0251ab [9/9] x86: switch to > > generic sys_execve and kernel_execve > > The same commit triggers other warnings (new config and dmesg attached): > > [ 18.315125] debug: unmapping init [mem 0x816b6000-0x81852fff] > [ 18.318178] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at > /c/kernel-tests/src/stable/kernel/rwsem.c:47 > [ 18.318243] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1, name: init > [ 18.318243] no locks held by init/1. > [ 18.318243] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.5.0-01258-g1ade992 #182 > [ 18.318243] Call Trace: > [ 18.318243] [<8109e07d>] __might_sleep+0x13d/0x170 > [ 18.318243] [<813cea7c>] down_write+0x2c/0xd0 > [ 18.318243] [<81166ae9>] sys_brk+0x29/0x1f0 > [ 18.318243] [<813d22d0>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Ow... I think I understand what happened here, and I really don't like the picture ;-/ Could you check if slapping regs->flags = X86_EFLAGS_IF; in process_32.c:start__thread() gets rid of that? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/