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> You cannot call any routines which may sleep, unless:
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> You are in user context.
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> You do not own any spinlocks.
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> You have interrupts enabled (actually, Andi Kleen says
that the scheduling code will enable them for you, but
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> Note that some functions may sleep implicitly: common ones are
the user space access functions (*_user) and memory allocation
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> You will eventually lock up your box if you break these rules.
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