Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc1-mm2-V0.7.7

[Michael J. Cohen]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:45 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Michael J. Cohen <mjc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Turned off the debugging stuff to fix this one :/
> > 
> > might_sleep issue at swap_on and firefox causes oopsen.
> > 
> > dmesg is 120k+ so here:
> > 
> > http://325i.org/software/2.6.10-rc1-mm2-RT-V0.7.8.dmesg
> 
> does the patch below fix the fbcon problem? (if any new oops happens or
> old one triggers again then please re-post the syslog or serial console
> capture)
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
> --- linux/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c.orig
> +++ linux/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
> @@ -1051,7 +1051,14 @@ static void fbcon_cursor(struct vc_data 
>  	struct display *p = &fb_display[vc->vc_num];
>  	int y = real_y(p, vc->vc_y);
>   	int c = scr_readw((u16 *) vc->vc_pos);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_REALTIME
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +#endif
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_REALTIME
> +	local_save_flags(flags);
> +	local_irq_enable();
> +#endif
>  	ops->cursor_flash = 1;
>  	if (mode & CM_SOFTBACK) {
>  		mode &= ~CM_SOFTBACK;
> @@ -1069,6 +1076,9 @@ static void fbcon_cursor(struct vc_data 
>  	ops->cursor(vc, info, p, mode, get_color(vc, info, c, 1),
>  		    get_color(vc, info, c, 0));
>  	vbl_cursor_cnt = CURSOR_DRAW_DELAY;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_REALTIME
> +	local_irq_restore(flags);
> +#endif
>  }
>  
>  static int scrollback_phys_max = 0;

Works fine so far. still have to deal with e1000 though...

------
Michael Cohen

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