2.6.24.7-rt10

2.6.24.7-rt10

[Steven Rostedt]

We are pleased to announce the 2.6.24.7-rt10 tree, 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 2.6.24.7-rt9

  - ported latest ftracers (Steven Rostedt)

  - vdso vsyscall generic (Luis Goncalves)

  - git-ignore update (Hiroshi Shimamoto)

  - lockstat updates (Peter Zijlstra)

  - Adjust pi_lock in wakeup waiters (Peter Morreale)

  - optimize rt_spin wakeup (Peter Morreale)

  - all archs use task->oncpu (Gregory Haskins)
     [modified use in header by Steven Rostedt]

  - remove redundant try_to_take_lock (Peter Morreale)

  - fastpath try_to_take_lock on steal (Steven Rostedt)

  - ticket FIFO spinlocks (Nick Piggin)

to build a 2.6.24.7-rt10 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-rt10.bz2


*** Note ***

  2.6.25.x-rt4 with updates will be coming out shortly

*** Note ***



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.



-- Steve

Re: 2.6.24.7-rt10

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sun, 25 May 2008, trem wrote:
>
> I've got a problem with the compilation when compiling kernel/rcupreempt_trace.o :
>
> kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c: In function ?rcupreempt_trace_init?:
> kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c:539: erreur: implicit declaration of function ?marker_arm?
> kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c: In function ?rcupreempt_trace_cleanup?:
> kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c:577: erreur: too few arguments to function ?marker_probe_unregister?
> kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c:583: erreur: too few arguments to function ?marker_probe_unregister?
> make[1]: *** [kernel/rcupreempt_trace.o] Erreur 1
>
>
> I think that markers-upstream.patch can't be used with rcu-preempt-trace-markers-1.patch and
> rcu-preempt-trace-markers-2.patch.
>

Or more correctly, the rcu-preempt-markers patches can't be used with
markers-upstream.patch ;-)

I'll port that over, since it will need to be ported anyway.

-- Steve