Re: 2.6.14-rt21 & evolution

[Dinakar Guniguntala]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:48:16PM -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 
> To tell the truth this does not seem like a -rt related problem except
> that it started happening the day I booted into -rt21. 
> 

Can you try this patch below. Ingo has already included it in his tree
and will probably show up in -rt22.

This was changed in -rt14 and returns spurious -ETIMEDOUT from
FUTEX_WAIT calls which I just checked that evo does a lot of

	-Dinakar

Index: linux-2.6.14-rt21-rayrt4/kernel/futex.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-rt21-rayrt4.orig/kernel/futex.c	2005-12-02 16:55:26.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.14-rt21-rayrt4/kernel/futex.c	2005-12-02 17:21:20.000000000 +0530
@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@
 			  int val3)
 {
 	struct timespec t;
-	unsigned long timeout = 0;
+	unsigned long timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
 	int val2 = 0;
 
 	if ((op == FUTEX_WAIT || op == FUTEX_WAIT_ROBUST) && utime) {