Re: Ingo's realtime_preempt patch causes kernel oops

Thomas Gleixner
2006-05-24T07:41:19Z

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 10:19 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> It looks like the timer interrupt on this board is having a NULL regs
> passed to it when hard interrupts are threads. Which might mean that
> the timer interrupt is itself a thread.

Yes, the timer interrupt must be setup with SA_INTERUPT | SA_NODELAY
set.

tglx