Re: [Announce] 2.6.29.1-rt4

Thomas Gleixner
2009-04-04T04:31:58Z

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 19:21 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt
> > series.
> >
> > - rebased to 2.6.29.1
> >
> > - powerpc64 tlb rework fix by Peter
>
> Thanks for cc'ing me...
>
> Just a heads up. I'm still having shutdown/suspend problems with this
> release as before (I had not reported the suspend problem, I think -
> machine hangs and has to be power cycled). Booting with "noreplace-smp"
> fixes both. Is this something I could disable through configuration
> options?

No. I have this shutdown/suspend thing on my todo list. Can you send
me your .config please ? This happens with the stock -rt kernel or do
you have other patches on top of it ?

> I was also seeing a hard hang when running a java program (with the
> Fedora 10 open source java) - the swingosc gui component of
> SuperCollider 3 (a computer music synthesis program). Impossible to know
> what had failed, machine completely catatonic and nothing left on the
> logs.
>
> I managed to start the same program _once_ (have not tested again) with
> 2.6.29.1/rt4 + some patches & config from fc10' koji 2.6.29.1-15. The
> mouse seemed to pause a couple of times and then I killed the program.
> Restarting it again was successful. Sorry to not have more hard info...

Too bad that I can't find my crystal ball :)

Thanks,

tglx