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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Gabriel Devenyi <devenyga@mcmaster.ca>
Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Preempt Violation
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:50:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090025439.2852.12.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407162006.23456.devenyga@mcmaster.ca>

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 20:06, Gabriel Devenyi wrote:
> This one looks particularly nasty.
> 
> 20ms non-preemptible critical section violated 4 ms preempt threshold starting 
> a                                                                                        
> t sys_ioctl+0x42/0x260 and ending at sys_ioctl+0xbd/0x260
>  [<c015881d>] sys_ioctl+0xbd/0x260
>  [<c0116510>] dec_preempt_count+0x110/0x120
>  [<c015881d>] sys_ioctl+0xbd/0x260
>  [<c0103e95>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71

Yes, it looks like there are serious issues with ioctl.

Are you using either of the recent patches to fully daemonize softirqs? 
This should help a lot.  I am using this one:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/7/13/125

It applied against 2.6.8-mm1, with only one PPC-specific reject, I use
i386 so it doesn't matter.

Here is another:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/7/13/152

Have not tested yet.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-17  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-17  0:06 Preempt Violation Gabriel Devenyi
2004-07-17  0:50 ` Lee Revell [this message]
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2004-07-19  6:06 Zhu, Yi

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