Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U8

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 03:38:09 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> ah, indeed. Note that this is still not enough - please try to add a
> local_irq_enable() to netconsole.c's console-write function - does
> that fix it equally well for you?
>
> the reason is that if we crash within an irqs-off section then
> netconsole will still be called with interrupts disabled and will
> trigger the assert.

i've added your patch to my tree, plus the extra local_irq_enable(),
this should also fix fbcon - so no changes needed to netconsole.c. All
of these problems will go away if/when the console code goes away from
raw spinlocks.

Ingo
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