Re: [PATCH] move put_task_struct() reaping into a thread [Re: 2.6.18-rt1]

[Ingo Molnar]

* Bill Huey <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Also, triggering a panic() at the beginning of the rt mutex acquire 
> was very useful since it made "in_atomic()" violations an explicit 
> error stopping the machine. Stack traces started to get really crazy 
> in this preemptive kernel with all sorts of things running unlike the 
> non-preemptive kernel and it was time consuming to figure out the real 
> stuff from the noise in the stack trace.

well you should absolutely have serial console if you effectively want 
to hack the Linux kernel. And in the serial console log you should 
search for stacktraces top-down, and concentrate on the first one - any 
subsequent one might be collateral damage of the first one.

	Ingo
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