Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

[Chuck Harding]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Although turning off apm works, this is a fix to the symptom and not a
> > > cure.  Has someone already taken a look at this code? Since
> > > apm_bios_call_simple calls local_save_flags and afterwards
> > > raw_lock_irq_restore is then called.  Shouldn't that have been
> > > raw_local_save_flags?
> >
> > ah, indeed. I fixed this bug and have uploaded the -50-26 patch.
> > Chuck, does this fix the APM problems for you?
>
> i've also uploaded -50-27 in which i've improved the irq-flags debugging
> code. They are activated if CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled, and can
> come in two variants of kernel messages:
>
> BUG: bad raw irq-flag value 80000000, test/3810!
> BUG: bad soft irq-flag value 00000202, test/3810!
>
> so we should now be able to detect mismatches of irq flags right where
> they occur.
>
> 	Ingo

Ack!! I didn't have that enabled so I am rebuilding again. One thing I've
noticed is that sox seems to be hanging when it is trying to play a .wav
file (for system beeps) and there aren't any error messages about what
might be going on.

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