* Mike Galbraith | 2014-01-18 04:25:14 [+0100]: >> ># timers-do-not-raise-softirq-unconditionally.patch >> ># rtmutex-use-a-trylock-for-waiter-lock-in-trylock.patch >> > >> >..those two out does seem to have stabilized the thing. >> >> timers-do-not-raise-softirq-unconditionally.patch is on its way out. >> >> rtmutex-use-a-trylock-for-waiter-lock-in-trylock.patch confues me. >> Didn't you report once that your box deadlocks without this patch? Now >> your 64way box on the other hand does not work with it? > >If 'do not raise' is applied, 'use a trylock' won't save you. If 'do is this just an observation or you do know why it won't save me? Currently I think to go back to the version where the waiter_lock was taken with irqs off. However I would prefer to trigger this myself so I would know what is going on instead blindly apply patches.
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