Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > great! Do the softlockup warnings still occur?
> 
> Yes, but in no greater a number.

could you apply the patch below, so that we can see what kind of time 
gap the softlockup detector encountered?

	Ingo

Index: linux/kernel/softlockup.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/softlockup.c
+++ linux/kernel/softlockup.c
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ void softlockup_tick(void)
 		per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu) = timestamp;
 
 		spin_lock(&print_lock);
-		printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#%d!\n",
-			this_cpu);
+		printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#%d! %ld-%ld\n",
+			this_cpu, jiffies, timestamp);
 		dump_stack();
 #if defined(__i386__) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
 		nmi_show_all_regs();
-
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