Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 10:59:23 EST


On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 11:15 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I tested this patch by switching the kjournald to FIFO prio 30 and doing
> a make of the kernel and "find / -name vmlinux", but this took 40
> minutes to cause the deadlock. Attached is a dumb module that creates a
> thread and spins. If you want to test my softlockup detect, this will
> trigger it. The thread that is created is not RT so you can still do
> work. My detector doesn't care if something spins in the kernel as an RT
> task or not, it will flag it regardless.

Here's an updated version of the tarball. I've included another module
called nodeadlock that does a msleep(1) instead of a schedule. This
should _not_ be detected as a lockup.

-- Steve

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