Re: rtmutex assert failure (was [Patch] restore the RCU callback...)

Bill Huey
2006-08-29T17:12:22Z

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:05:27PM -0700, Robert Crocombe wrote:
> On 8/28/06, hui Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> wrote:
>
> >I was unclear in explain that __put_task_struct() should never
> >appear with free_task() in a stack trace as you can clearly see
> >from the implementation. All it's suppose to do is wake a thread,
> >so "how?" you're getting those things simultaneously in the stack
> >trace is completely baffling to me. Could you double check to see
> >if it's booting the right kernel ? maybe make sure that's calling
> >that version of the function with printks or something ?
>
> So I built another kernel with the most recent "t6" patches from
> scratch and stuck in a directory 2.6.17-rt8-mrproper.
>
> [rcrocomb@spanky ~]$ cd kernel/
> [rcrocomb@spanky kernel]$ rm -Rf test_2.6.17-rt8/
> [rcrocomb@spanky kernel]$ tar xf source/linux-2.6.16.tar
> [rcrocomb@spanky kernel]$ mv linux-2.6.16/ 2.6.17-rt8-mrproper
> [rcrocomb@spanky kernel]$ cd 2.6.17-rt8-mrproper/
> [rcrocomb@spanky 2.6.17-rt8-mrproper]$ patch -s -p1 <
> ../patches/patch-2.6.17
> [rcrocomb@spanky 2.6.17-rt8-mrproper]$ patch -s -p1 <
> ../patches/patch-2.6.17-rt8
> [rcrocomb@spanky 2.6.17-rt8-mrproper]$ patch -s -p0 < ../patches/t6.diff
> [rcrocomb@spanky 2.6.17-rt8-mrproper]$ uname -r
> 2.6.17-rt8_UP_00

I'm going to ask what seems like a really stupid question. What's "t6" ?
and what's the relationship of that to my patches ?

[side note: I'm headed to Burning Man tomorrow and won't be on a computer
for 6 days until I come back]

bill