Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-mm1-V0.6.8

From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 21:57:59 EST


On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:27, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This build appears to run OK and then in the middle of the real time
> > > tests stops doing useful work (during network test).
> >
> > weird, the deadlock detector did not trigger, although it is a clear
> > circular deadlock:
>
> ah ... found it - a fair portion of spinlocks and rwlocks had deadlock
> detection turned off in -V0.6.6 - amongst them ptype_lock. I've uploaded
> -V0.6.9 that fixes this.

This happens with V0.6.9 running on an Athlon64:

r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.6LK loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf88a0f00, 00:0c:76:b3:c2:43, IRQ 16
BUG: atomic counter underflow at:
[<c0108153>] dump_stack+0x23/0x30 (20)
[<c02f5e91>] qdisc_destroy+0xe1/0xf0 (28)
[<c02f60ad>] dev_shutdown+0x3d/0xa0 (28)
[<c02e6ffb>] unregister_netdevice+0x12b/0x2a0 (36)
[<c0273ffe>] unregister_netdev+0x1e/0x30 (16)
[<f8b0b8b5>] rtl8169_remove_one+0x25/0x50 [r8169] (32)
[<c01f55a6>] pci_device_remove+0x76/0x80 (24)
[<c025f15d>] device_release_driver+0x6d/0x70 (24)
[<c025f18b>] driver_detach+0x2b/0x40 (20)
[<c025f5ff>] bus_remove_driver+0x3f/0x70 (20)
[<c025fb0c>] driver_unregister+0x1c/0x30 (16)
[<c01f586c>] pci_unregister_driver+0x1c/0x30 (16)
[<f8b0d357>] rtl8169_cleanup_module+0x17/0x1b [r8169] (12)
[<c013fdb1>] sys_delete_module+0x121/0x150 (96)
[<c010729d>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71 (-8124)
---------------------------
| preempt count: 00000001 ]
| 1-level deep critical section nesting:
----------------------------------------
.. [<c013dc3d>] .... print_traces+0x1d/0x60
.....[<c0108153>] .. ( <= dump_stack+0x23/0x30)

divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

-- Fernando


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