Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U6

From: Lee Revell
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 00:31:41 EST


On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 14:52, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> >
> > * Adam Heath <doogie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I am still having the same bug(repeatable by running liquidwar) as I
> > > reported with -U5(see my earlier email).
> >
> > ok, this seems to be some questionable code in OSS. It really has no
> > business up()-ing the inode semaphore - nobody down()-ed it before! This
> > could be either a bad workaround for a bug/hang someone saw, or an old
> > VFS assumption that doesnt hold anymore. In any case, could you try the
> > patch below, does it fix liquidwar?
>
> Yup, the below fixes it. However, this problem *only* started occuring in
> -U5. I've been running liquidwar on all versions(it's my current
> game-to-play-when-I-feel-stupid program).

The real fix is to use ALSA. :-)

Lee

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