2.6.24.7-rt25 and 2.6.26.8-rt12

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sat Dec 20 2008 - 00:55:42 EST


We are pleased to announce the 2.6.24.7-rt25 and 2.6.26.8-rt12 trees,
which can be downloaded from the location:

http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/

Information on the RT patch can be found at:

http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

Changes since 2.6.26.6-rt11

- Ported to 2.6.26.8

- rwlock fix owners race (Steven Rostedt)

- fix rwlock boosting (Thomas Gleixner)

- force rwlock into slow path (Thomas Gleixner)

- fix missing get struct from previous patches (Thomas Gleixner)

Changes in both 2.6.24.7-rt25 and 2.6.26.8-rt12 (all by Thomas Gleixner)

- ftrace: fix task state printout

- sched: remove useless nointeractive state

- rtmutex: remove unused variable

- rtmutex: unify state manipulation

- rtmutex: remove uber optimization

- rtmutex: remove useless schedule enforcement

- rtmutex: prevent missed wakeups


to build a 2.6.24.7-rt25 tree, the following patches should be applied:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.24.7.bz2
http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/patch-2.6.24.7-rt25.bz2


to build a 2.6.26.8-rt12 tree, the following patches should be applied:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.26.8.bz2
http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/patch-2.6.26.8-rt12.bz2


And like always, my RT version of Matt Mackall's ketchup will get this
for you nicely:

http://people.redhat.com/srostedt/rt/tools/ketchup-0.9.8-rt3


The broken out patches are also available.


We are still actively working on the git tree and are hoping to
get a released out by early January.

-- Steve



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