Re: [e1000_netpoll] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/irq/manage.c:110

On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 09:45:12 +0200, Thomas Gleixner said:

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, nick wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
index f42129d..e1830af 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c

@@ -3797,7 +3797,7 @@ static irqreturn_t e1000_intr(int irq, void *data)
 		hw->get_link_status = 1;
 		/* guard against interrupt when we're going down */
 		if (!test_bit(__E1000_DOWN, &adapter->flags))
-			schedule_delayed_work(&adapter->watchdog_task, 1);
+			mod_work(&adapter->watchdog_task, jiffies + 1);

And that's not even funny anymore. Are you using a random generator to create
these patches?

At some point, we need to decide if the occasional accidentally-correct
trivial patch from Nick is worth all the wasted maintainer time.