From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261298AbVFVOIP (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:08:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261304AbVFVOIP (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:08:15 -0400 Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.44]:8332 "EHLO vms044pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261298AbVFVOIM (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:08:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:08:10 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-00 In-reply-to: <200506220951.59512.gene.heskett@verizon.net> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar , Benjamin LaHaise , William Weston , "K.R. Foley" , "Eugeny S. Mints" , Daniel Walker , linux-ns83820@kvack.org, nhorman@redhat.com, Jeff Garzik Message-id: <200506221008.10384.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Organization: None, usuallly detectable by casual observers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <20050608112801.GA31084@elte.hu> <200506220927.07874.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200506220951.59512.gene.heskett@verizon.net> User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.