Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> because end_buffer_async_read/write use bit_spin_(un)lock and I do not 
> know how those interact with -RT.

bit_spin_lock is preemptible too - but it's not a too nice construct.  
What seems to have happened in your trace is that local_irq_disable() 
was used too in combination with bit-spinlocks, and a spinlock was taken 
from within it. The best fix would be to get rid of bit-spinlocks ...

	Ingo
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