Re: Realtime Preemption - 2.6.12-final-RT-V0.7.50-35

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 14:33:41 EST



* Chuck Harding <charding@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> still having sox hang with no messages about what is going on. I have
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT enabled. It did work without hanging for about 50
> times of playing a sound file, so the problem seems to take a bit of
> time to develop. What other info would you need to figure this out?

could you chrt the sound IRQ thread to SCHED_OTHER (audio performance
will suck, but it will be more debuggable) - when the lockup happens, do
you see the IRQ thread looping? Do you have SOFTLOCKUP_DETECT turned on
too?

Ingo
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