Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-00

[Ingo Molnar]

* K.R. Foley <kr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > could you uncomment the IO_APIC_CACHE define in 
> > arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c, and could you uncomment line 1109 in 
> > drivers/ide/ide-io.c - does this fix things? (in apic mode)

> Couple of things: 1) I could not find IO_APIC_CACHE anywhere. I could 
> find IOAPIC_CACHE but the define was not commented in io_apic.c. Also 
> the BUG_ON at line 1109 in ide-io.c was not commented out either. So I 
> made the mental leap that you actually meant to comment these out 
> instead of uncomment them??? [...]

yeah, sorry :-|

> [...] That works to get the system booted. Although I am getting many 
> soft lockups now, minutes after the boot. Log attached. [...]

hm, do you get actual lockups, or only the messages about them? I.e.  
does the system work fine if you [the sounds of careful thinking to get 
the word right] disable CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP, or does it lock up 
silently?

> [...] 2) In my infinite wisdom before :-) I failed to attach my config 
> as I should have done before. Also, commenting out

this looks like a sentence worth finishing? :)

	Ingo
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