Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 06/10] uml: run mconsole "sysrq" in process context

[Jeff Dike]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:20:20PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> sysrq t is broken (and stays), 

There's a fix on the way for that.  This has nothing to do with interrupt
context anyway.

> but additionally there are some warnings from 
> some commands (enable sleep inside spinlock checking and spinlock debugging), 
> which go to the down_read inside handle_page_fault IIRC. So try to run in 
> process context.

Which ones?  They should be fixed.

It is fairly fundamental to sysrq that it work from interrupt context.  You
may be diagnosing a system which can't context switch any more.

This patch should be dropped, and the real problems fixed.

				Jeff
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