Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.31.4-rt14

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2009-11-04T02:13:10Z

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:02 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt
> series.
>
> - Forward to 2.6.31.4

Could some guru rebase to 2.6.31.5 please?
I get two failed chunks in kernel/futex.c

Would be appreciated...
-- Fernando

> - Handle futex spurious wakeups
> - slab fixes for NUMA (peterz)
>
> The slab problem is still not completely resolved. It's hard to
> reproduce and was only seen on Nehalem dual socket systems so far. If
> you have such a machine you might help providing a back trace, just run
>
> while true; do hackbench N; done
>
> until it explodes. Adjust N to your system, the larger the
> better. Make sure you have a serial console to capture the oops.
>
> Download locations:
>
> http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/
>
> Git release branch:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git rt/2.6.31
>
> Git development branch:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git rt/head
>
> Gitweb:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=shortlog;h=rt/2.6.31
>
> Information on the RT patch can be found at:
>
> http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
>
> to build the 2.6.31.4-rt14 tree, the following patches should be
> applied:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.31.4.tar.bz2
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.31.4-rt14.bz2
>
> Enjoy !
>
> tglx