Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-00

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 09:09:01 EST


On Wednesday 22 June 2005 09:51, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Wednesday 22 June 2005 09:27, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>On Wednesday 22 June 2005 03:40, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> FWIW, 50-06 is running clean here with mode 3 & no hardirq
>>>> threading. Uptime is about 9 hours.
>>>>
>>>> Would it do any good to try mode 4 & see if tvtime still runs?
>>>> Previously, I got the impression that was a dma problem & posted
>>>> some of the logs, but I've not noted any fixes for that go by.
>>>
>>>sure, any extra testing - even if it finds no problems, is just as
>>>useful. Especially if you have a .config where everything works.
>>> That way we'll know for sure that any regressions are related to
>>> PREEMPT_RT.
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>
>>I can report that mode 4 is not at all well here. I turned it on
>> and changed the extraversion, built it, and when it booted, it got
>> to this line and hung:
>>
>>Checking to see if this processor honours the WP bit even in
>>supervisor mode... OK.
>>
>>And I had to use the hardware reset to recover & boot to a mode 3
>>version of 50-06.
>>
>>That .config is attached.
>
>I can also report that the modules did not get installed, I'd
>forgotten to rename the src tree to match the extraversion, so the
>final cd my script makes to install the modules failed. I have a
> new version building to dbl-check this.

And that also resulted in the hang at the above lines completion.


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