[ANNOUNCE] 2.6.31-rt10

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Sep 15 2009 - 17:12:41 EST


We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt
series.

- update to 2.6.31

- timekeeping 32bit overflow fix

- rt locking fix for rw_locks and rwsems. Solves a kvm crash

- kvm might sleep warning fix

- remove empty cpumask warning in x86(32bit) IPI code

- tracer fixes - picked from mainline

- perf counter fix - picked from mainline

Known issues:
- ARM highmem
- scheduler load balancing oddities. Peter is working on it.
- timer_interrupt hang check (fix queued for .31-rt11)

Pending updates:
- I'm planning to add back MIPS support in the .31-rt11 release.

Download locations:

http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/

Git release branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git rt/2.6.31

Git development branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git rt/head

Gitweb:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=shortlog;h=rt/2.6.31

Information on the RT patch can be found at:

http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

to build the 2.6.31-rt10 tree, the following patches should be
applied:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.31.tar.bz2
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.31-rt10.bz2

Enjoy !

tglx

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