Re: status of: tasklet_unlock_wait() causes soft lockup with -rtand ieee1394 audio

[Pieter Palmers]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Pieter Palmers <pieterp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > What is the status with respect to this problem? I see that in the 
> > current -rt patch the problematic code piece is different. I 
> > personally haven't tried to reproduce this myself on a more recent 
> > kernel, but I just got a report from one of our users who experienced 
> > the same problem with 2.6.19-rt15 and RT preemption (desktop 
> > preemption works fine).
> >
> > Should the latest -rt patches be fixed with respect to this issue? If 
> > so I'll try and test them, otherwise I omit the effort.
>
> it's not fixed yet. Could you try the patch below?

I just compiled & installed 2.6.20-rc6-rt2, and I saw that this patch 
was in the -rt2 patch, so I gave real-time preemption a shot. It seems 
to work, I don't experience lockups anymore.

Thanks for the fix,

Pieter
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