Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai LTTng support

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 17:44 +0200, vikesh rambaran wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
> wrote:
>         Vikesh Rambaran wrote:
>         > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:53 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>         >> Vikesh Rambaran wrote:
>         >>> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:35 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>         >>>>>> NMI watchdog, see Xenomai machine kconfig menu, use
>         nmi_watchdog=2 to
>         >>>>>> finally enable it at the kernel command line.
>         >>>>>>
>         >>>>> There are build issues with NMI enabled.
>         >>>>>
>         >>>>> Would you prefer testing with the latest git updates, or
>         can i just
>         >>>>> replace the following in hal32.c (line 139)
>         >>>>>
>         >>>>> - die_nmi(regs, buf);
>         >>>>> + die_nmi(buf, regs, 1);
>         >>>> If your CPU is not too new, this may suffice. Otherwise
>         you should
>         >>>> switch over to the development head (upcoming 2.5) as
>         there we have
>         >>>> up-to-date NMI support.
>         >>>> BTW, trying 2.5-devel might be useful anyway to check if
>         the picture
>         >>>> changes (maybe we even see a clearer error with that
>         branch...).
>         >>>>
>         >>> Ok, thanx. I have a Core Duo and a Core 2. Will try the
>         'short' approach
>         >>> first as our external git access at work is blocked.
>         >
>         > Tried the test with NMI enabled and die_nmi(buf, regs, 1);
>         > No additional Xenomai / IPIPE info is displayed on the
>         serial console.
>         >
>         > What type of response were we hoping for ? Reset ?
>         
>         
>         Nope. Some error message that the NMI watchdog triggered. You
>         should see
>         NMI increases in /proc/interrupts and /proc/xenomai/irq. But
>         if you are
>         on Intel Core processors, you need the patches in git head.
>         2.4.7 does
>         not support your CPUs.
> 
> Here's serial console output of two scenarios that produced a kernel
> panic using kernel 2.6.28.7
> with xenomai-head-6759ba0580f10f7465c8a205a68ce49e552ea77f
> 

Does this patch show any improvement?
http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v2.6/x86/older/adeos-ipipe-2.6.28.9-x86-2.2-07.patch

You may want to try this one if you plan to run 2.6.29 as well.
http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v2.6/x86/adeos-ipipe-2.6.29.1-x86-2.3-01.patch

-- 
Philippe.