Re: 2.6.15-rt17

[K.R. Foley]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i have released the 2.6.15-rt17 tree, which can be downloaded from the 
> usual place:
> 
>    http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 
> lots of changes all across the map. There are several bigger changes:
> 
> the biggest change is the new PI code from Esben Nielsen, Thomas 
> Gleixner and Steven Rostedt. This big rework simplifies and streamlines 
> the PI code, and fixes a couple of bugs and races:
> 
>   - only the top priority waiter on a lock is enqueued into the pi_list
>     of the task which holds the lock. No more pi list walking in the
>     boost case.
> 
>   - simpler locking rules
> 
>   - fast Atomic acquire for the non contended case and atomic release 
>     for non waiter case is fully functional now
> 
>   - use task_t references instead of thread_info pointers
> 
>   - BKL handling for semaphore style locks changed so that BKL is
>     dropped before the scheduler is entered and reaquired in the return
>     path. This solves a possible deadlock situation in the BKL reacquire
>     path of the scheduler.
> 
> another change is the reworking of the SLAB code: it now closely matches 
> the upstream SLAB code, and it should now work on NUMA systems too 
> (untested though).
> 
> the tasklet code was reworked too to be PREEMPT_RT friendly: the new PI 
> code unearthed a fundamental livelock scenario with PREEMPT_RT, and the 
> fix was to rework the tasklet code to get rid of the 'retrigger 
> softirqs' approach.
> 
> other changes: various hrtimers fixes, latency tracer enhancements - and 
> more. (Robust-futexes are not expected to work in this release.)
> 
> please report any new breakages, and re-report any old breakages as 
> well.
> 
> to build a 2.6.15-rt17 tree, the following patches should be applied:
> 
>   http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.15-rt17
> 
> 	Ingo
> -

Also would you apply the attached patch to fix the RTC_HISTOGRAM Kconfig
option. In it's current state "tristate" it allows building as a module,
which of course doesn't work.

-- 
   kr
--- linux-2.6.15/drivers/char/Kconfig.orig	2006-02-01 12:51:53.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.15/drivers/char/Kconfig	2006-02-01 12:52:12.000000000 -0600
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@
 	  module will be called rtc.
 
 config RTC_HISTOGRAM
-	tristate "Real Time Clock Histogram Support"
+	bool "Real Time Clock Histogram Support"
 	default n
 	depends on RTC
 	---help---