On Friday 01 April 2005 05:47, Ingo Molnar wrote: >i have released the -V0.7.43-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which > can be downloaded from the usual place: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > >this release too is a step towards more robustness. I found a bug > that caused an infinite recursion and subsequent spontaneous > reboot. The bug was once again related to lock->debug locks, so i > decided to get rid of them altogether: from now on every lock in > the -RT domain is debugged. > >To be able to use code that relies on incompatible properties of > stock Linux semaphores (and rwsems), i've added a new compile-time > semaphore-type mechanism that enables the easy switching from RT > semaphores to stock semaphores. I've done this conversion for all > subsystems that needed it - e.g. XFS, firewire, USB and SCSI. XFS > seems to be working much better with this approach - BYMMV. > >but an unavoidable side-effect is that the whole codebase got turned >upside down once again, so be careful and expect a few rough edges. > In particular keep an eye on new compile-time warnings related to > semaphores - code that gives a warning might build but it will > almost certainly not work. > >to create a -V0.7.43-00 tree from scratch, the patching order is: > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2
I use the .gz, more reliable unpacks > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.12-rc1.bz >2 Again I use the .gz > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/realtime-preempt-2.6.12-r >c1-V0.7.43-00 > > Ingo It was up to 43-04 by the time I got there. This one didn't go in cleanly Ingo. From my build-src scripts output: ------------------- Applying patch realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-04 [...] patching file lib/rwsem-spinlock.c Hunk #5 FAILED at 133. Hunk #6 FAILED at 160. Hunk #7 FAILED at 179. Hunk #8 FAILED at 194. Hunk #9 FAILED at 204. Hunk #10 FAILED at 231. Hunk #11 FAILED at 250. Hunk #12 FAILED at 265. Hunk #13 FAILED at 274. Hunk #14 FAILED at 293. Hunk #15 FAILED at 314. 11 out of 15 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file lib/rwsem-spinlock.c.rej ----------- I doubt it would run, so I haven't built it. Should I? -- 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) 99.34% 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. - 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/