BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /usr/local/src/linux-3.4-rc1/include/linux/freezer.h:46

[Rabin Vincent]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:32, Lothar Waßmann <LW at karo-electronics.de> wrote:
> commit a0acae0e added a might_sleep() to try_to_freeze() in
> include/linux/freezer.h.
> This leads to the following BUG message each time a process is started
> when compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y
>
> |BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /usr/local/src/linux-3.4-rc1/include/linux/freezer.h:46
> |in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 128, pid: 619, name: rc

This is on ARM, right?  In this old thread, there is a patch from
Russell which fixes it, but it seems to have not been applied:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/25/231