Hi Daniel, See inline...
>>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 9:51 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:35:13PM -0800, Max Krasnyanskiy wrote: >> This is just an FYI. As part of the "Isolated CPU extensions" thread Daniel > suggest for me >> to check out latest RT kernels. So I did or at least tried to and > immediately spotted a couple >> of issues. >> >> The machine I'm running it on is: >> HP xw9300, Dual Opteron, NUMA >> >> It looks like with -rt kernel IRQ affinity masks are ignored on that >> system. ie I write 1 to lets say /proc/irq/23/smp_affinity but the >> interrupts keep coming to CPU1. Vanilla 2.6.24 does not have that issue. > > I tried this, and it works according to /proc/interrupts .. Are you > looking at the interrupt threads affinity? > >> Also the first thing I tried was to bring CPU1 off-line. Thats the fastest >> way to get irqs, soft-irqs, timers, etc of a CPU. But the box hung >> completely. It also managed to mess up my ext3 filesystem to the point >> where it required manual fsck (have not see that for a couple of >> years now). I tried the same thing (ie echo 0 > >> /sys/devices/cpu/cpu1/online) from the console. It hang again with the >> message that looked something like: >> CPU1 is now off-line >> Thread IRQ-23 is on CPU1 ... > > I get the following when I tried it, > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context bash(5126) at > kernel/rtmutex.c:638 > in_atomic():1 [00000001], irqs_disabled():1 > Pid: 5126, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.24-rt1 #1 > [<c010506b>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1d/0x3a > [<c01059cd>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 > [<c0106151>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72 > [<c011d153>] __might_sleep+0xe8/0xef > [<c03b2326>] __rt_spin_lock+0x24/0x59 > [<c03b2363>] rt_spin_lock+0x8/0xa > [<c0165b2f>] kfree+0x2c/0x8d Doh! This is my bug. Ill have to come up with a good way to free that memory under atomic, or do this another way. Stay tuned. > [<c011eacb>] rq_attach_root+0x67/0xba > [<c01209ae>] cpu_attach_domain+0x2b6/0x2f7 > [<c0120a12>] detach_destroy_domains+0x23/0x37 > [<c0121368>] update_sched_domains+0x2d/0x40 > [<c013b482>] notifier_call_chain+0x2b/0x55 > [<c013b4d9>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x19/0x1e > [<c01420d3>] _cpu_down+0x84/0x24c > [<c01422c3>] cpu_down+0x28/0x3a > [<c029f59e>] store_online+0x27/0x5a > [<c029c9dc>] sysdev_store+0x20/0x25 > [<c019a695>] sysfs_write_file+0xad/0xde > [<c0169929>] vfs_write+0x82/0xb8 > [<c0169e2a>] sys_write+0x3d/0x61 > [<c0104072>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 > ======================= > --------------------------- > | preempt count: 00000001 ] > | 1-level deep critical section nesting: > ---------------------------------------- > .. [<c03b25e2>] .... __spin_lock_irqsave+0x14/0x3b > .....[<c011ea76>] .. ( <= rq_attach_root+0x12/0xba) > > Which is clearly a problem .. > > (I added linux-rt-users to the CC) > > Daniel > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
