Re: [RFC] RT-patch update to remove the global pi_lock

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Aug 25 2005 - 01:35:49 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, after turning off hrtimers, I keep getting one bug. A possible
> soft lockup with the ext3 code. But this didn't seem to be caused by
> the changes I made. So just to be sure, I ran my test on the vanilla
> 2.6.13-rc6-rt11 and it gave the same bug too. So, it looks like my
> changes are now at par with what is out there with the rt11 release.
> They both give the same bug! ;-)

does the system truly lock up, or is this some transitional condition?
In any case, i agree that this should be debugged independently of the
pi_lock patch.

Ingo
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