[Announce] 2.6.29-rt2

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Apr 01 2009 - 20:19:21 EST


We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt
series.

- fix a fork/exit bug in the signal per task cache (/me puts on
a huge brown paper bag - Thanks to Phillipe Reynes and Will
Schmidt for reporting and testing)

- fix a group scheduling migration accounting bug (decoded with
and fixed by Peter Zijlstra - reported by Robin Gareus)

- tlb gather rework by Peter Zijlstra - Thanks Peter !

- the usual fixlets

The tlb rework might be incomplete on some of the uncountable
incarnations of PowerPC and ARM platforms, so look out for wreckage
and keep the usual tools (fire-extinguishers, brooms, buckets etc.)
handy.

Download locations:

http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/

Information on the RT patch can be found at:

http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

to build the 2.6.29-rt2 tree, the following patches should be
applied:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.29-rt2.bz2

The broken out patches are also available at the same download
locations.

Enjoy !

tglx

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