Re: asterisk hangs with RT priority

From: Dhaval Giani
Date: Wed Dec 24 2008 - 08:43:19 EST


On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:36:17PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:10:03PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > I'm seeing hanging asterisk processes on startup when using
> > RT priority with current -git. Unfortunately I'm not sure about
> > the last working version, but it was one of the final 2.6.25 rcs.
> > The hang stops when executing "schedtool -N $(pidof asterisk)".
>
> I'm now hitting exactly the same problem with 2.6.28-rc9 (I had
> it with 2.6.27 too but thought it might go away on its own :)
>
> I've made a small program to attempt to reproduce this based on
> the asterisk code. Unfortunately it doesn't work on its own.
> However, if you run it under strace then it does hang in the
> same away as asterisk (which seems to happen after the setuid
> call, as strace shows it before hanging and the printk after
> it in asterisk gets executed).
>
> Note that the hang goes away if either setscheduler or setuid
> is removed.
>

Hmm. Do you have CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED set on?

Thanks,
--
regards,
Dhaval
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