On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 08:44:08PM +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > I am assuming here that wait_event_timeout() is supposed to support reentrant > calls.
Not really. It is sort of allowed, provided the inner one will rarely block. And therefore the outer one will mostly work. > If not, perhaps it should BUG_ON when called with a non-running task > state, There is a warning in __might_sleep() that catches some of this. > and the SBS HC / ACPI EC code needs to be fixed to stop doing this. Yes. -- 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/