Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Pieter Palmers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear all,
What is the status with respect to this problem? I see that in the
current -rt patch the problematic code piece is different. I
personally haven't tried to reproduce this myself on a more recent
kernel, but I just got a report from one of our users who experienced
the same problem with 2.6.19-rt15 and RT preemption (desktop
preemption works fine).
Should the latest -rt patches be fixed with respect to this issue? If
so I'll try and test them, otherwise I omit the effort.
it's not fixed yet. Could you try the patch below?
Ingo,
I couldn't get my laptop booting on 2.6.20-rc3 or 2.6.19, but I passed
the patch on to one of our users and he reports that it is working (on
2.6.19-rt15).
Thanks,
Pieter
Ingo
---
include/linux/interrupt.h | 6 ++----
kernel/softirq.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux/include/linux/interrupt.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ linux/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -328,10 +328,8 @@ static inline void tasklet_unlock(struct
clear_bit(TASKLET_STATE_RUN, &(t)->state);
}
-static inline void tasklet_unlock_wait(struct tasklet_struct *t)
-{
- while (test_bit(TASKLET_STATE_RUN, &(t)->state)) { barrier(); }
-}
+extern void tasklet_unlock_wait(struct tasklet_struct *t);
+
#else
# define tasklet_trylock(t) 1
# define tasklet_tryunlock(t) 1
Index: linux/kernel/softirq.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/softirq.c
+++ linux/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
@@ -656,6 +657,25 @@ void __init softirq_init(void)
open_softirq(HI_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_hi_action, NULL);
}
+#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)
+
+void tasklet_unlock_wait(struct tasklet_struct *t)
+{
+ while (test_bit(TASKLET_STATE_RUN, &(t)->state)) {
+ /*
+ * Hack for now to avoid this busy-loop:
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+ msleep(1);
+#else
+ barrier();
+#endif
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklet_unlock_wait);
+
+#endif
+
static int ksoftirqd(void * __data)
{
struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_USER_RT_PRIO/2 };
-
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