Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Aug 13 2005 - 21:12:45 EST



* George Anzinger <george@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo, all
>
> I, silly person that I am, configured an RT, SMP, PREEMPT_DEBUG system.
> Someone put code in the NMI path to modify the preempt count which,
> often as not will generate a PREEMPT_DEBUG message as there is no tell
> what state the preempt count is in on an NMI interrupt. I have sent
> the attached patch to Andrew on this, but meanwhile, if you want RT,
> SMP, PREEMPT_DEBUG you will be much better off with this.

ah - thanks, applied. Might explain some of the recent SMP weirdnesses
i'm seeing. Attributed them to the HRT patch ;-)

Ingo
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