Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6 Real Time Kernel

[Måns Rullgård]

Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 17:35, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 09:15, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> >> I got this thing to build by adding a few EXPORT_SYMBOL, patch below.
>> >> Now it seems to be running quite well.  I am, however, getting
>> >> occasional "bad: scheduling while atomic!" messages, all alike:
>> >> 
>> >
>> > I am getting the same message.   Also, leaving all the default debug
>> > options on, I got this debug output, but it did not coincide with the
>> > "bad" messages.
>> >
>> > Mtx: dd84e644 [773] pri (0) inherit from [3] pri(92)
>> > Mtx dd84e644 task [773] pri (92) restored pri(0). Next owner [3] pri (92)
>> > Mtx: dd84e644 [773] pri (0) inherit from [3] pri(92)
>> > Mtx dd84e644 task [773] pri (92) restored pri(0). Next owner [3] pri (92)
>> > Mtx: dd84e644 [773] pri (0) inherit from [3] pri(92)
>> > Mtx dd84e644 task [773] pri (92) restored pri(0). Next owner [3] pri (92)
>> 
>> Well, those don't give me any clues.
>> 
>> I had the system running that kernel for a bit over an hour and got
>> five of the "bad" messages, approximately evenly spaced in a
>> two-minute interval about 20 minutes after boot.
>> 
>
> I am getting these too:
>
> bad: scheduling while atomic!
>  [<c0279c5a>] schedule+0x62a/0x630
>  [<c013b137>] kmutex_unlock+0x37/0x50
>  [<c013ab0d>] __p_mutex_down+0x1ed/0x360
>  [<c013b1e0>] kmutex_is_locked+0x20/0x40
>  [<c01cba47>] journal_dirty_data+0x77/0x230
>  [<c01bf2e2>] ext3_journal_dirty_data+0x12/0x40

My machine is mostly XFS, which might explain why I haven't seen any
of those.  I've found XFS to perform better with the multi-gigabyte
files I often deal with.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxx
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