2.6.19-rc6-rt8

2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Ingo Molnar]

i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from 
the usual place:

    http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/

lots of fixes are included in -rt8. In particular the inode/dentry leak 
found and fixed by Karsten Wiese (and the related OOMs reported by 
others) should be fixed.

I also started tracking Linus' latest -git tree, so all upstream 
stabilization fixes since -rc6 are included in -rt8 as well.

[ the latest KVM patchqueue is now included in -rt too. KVM should not
  impact anyone unless enabled. The YUM rpms have KVM enabled on both
  i686 and x86_64. ]

to build a 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, the following patches should be applied:

  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.19-rc6.bz2
  http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.19-rc6-rt8

the -rt YUM repository for Fedora Core 6 and 5, for architectures x86_64 
and i686 can be activated via:

   cd /etc/yum.repos.d
   wget http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/rt.repo

   yum install kernel-rt.x86_64   # on x86_64
   yum install kernel-rt          # on i686

   yum update kernel-rt           # refresh - or enable yum-updatesd

as usual, bugreports, fixes and suggestions are welcome,

	Ingo

rt7 sucess Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Sergio Monteiro Basto]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 10:49 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from 
> the usual place:
> 
>     http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/

Hi, yesterday I have done a "yum -y update" and have installed rt7. 
I test it with success, boot without notsc, don't loose any timer ticket
and found a second new clocksource, tsc. Now I have apci_pm, jiffies and
tsc.
so now for the first time I have a kernel that can boot without boot
options (and without major problems) .

Thanks, 
> 
> I also started tracking Linus' latest -git tree, so all upstream 
> stabilization fixes since -rc6 are included in -rt8 as well.

I don't know how you work with gits, but could be a good idea, if you
split Linus gits of rts patches, I don't know if it is difficult, it is
just an idea.

Thanks,  
--
Sérgio M. B.

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Karsten Wiese]

Am Montag, 27. November 2006 10:49 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from 

I saw usb transport errors here before rebooting with
	nmi_watchdog=0
contained in kernel command line.

Testcase stalled within 2 minutes before change,
ticks happily after change for 15 minutes now.
.config is a "release" type, no debugging options.

      Karsten

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Karsten Wiese]

Am Dienstag, 28. November 2006 23:40 schrieb Karsten Wiese:
> Am Montag, 27. November 2006 10:49 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> > i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from 
> 
> I saw usb transport errors here before rebooting with
> 	nmi_watchdog=0
> contained in kernel command line.
> 
> Testcase stalled within 2 minutes before change,
> ticks happily after change for 15 minutes now.
> .config is a "release" type, no debugging options.

After estimated 15 minutes more it bugged again.
Related dmesg translates to linux error
	-EXDEV
propably caused by the following lines:

<snip>
static int uhci_result_isochronous(struct uhci_hcd *uhci, struct urb *urb)
{
	struct uhci_td *td, *tmp;
	struct urb_priv *urbp = urb->hcpriv;
	struct uhci_qh *qh = urbp->qh;

	list_for_each_entry_safe(td, tmp, &urbp->td_list, list) {
		unsigned int ctrlstat;
		int status;
		int actlength;

		if (uhci_frame_before_eq(uhci->cur_iso_frame, qh->iso_frame))
			return -EINPROGRESS;

		uhci_remove_tds_from_frame(uhci, qh->iso_frame);

		ctrlstat = td_status(td);
		if (ctrlstat & TD_CTRL_ACTIVE) {
			status = -EXDEV;	/* TD was added too late? */
</snip>

      Karsten

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Ingo Molnar]

* Hu Gang <linuxbest@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:49:27 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from 
> > the usual place:
> > 
> >     http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 
> attached patch to making it compile and works in my PowerBook G4. 

thanks, applied. I'll let the PPC -rt folks sort out the hack effects. 
Do you have CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS enabled?

	Ingo

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Ingo Molnar]

* Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de> wrote:

> Am Montag, 27. November 2006 10:49 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> > i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from 
> 
> I saw usb transport errors here before rebooting with
> 	nmi_watchdog=0
> contained in kernel command line.

so nmi_watchdog=1 (or was it nmi_watchdog=2 ?) caused these problems - 
and then nmi_watchdog=0 fixed them? i686? Extremely weird. Does the 
patch below fix the issue perhaps?

	Ingo

Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -932,12 +932,14 @@ notrace __kprobes int nmi_watchdog_tick(
 
 	__profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
 
+#if 0
 	/* check for other users first */
 	if (notify_die(DIE_NMI, "nmi", regs, reason, 2, SIGINT)
 			== NOTIFY_STOP) {
 		rc = 1;
 		touched = 1;
 	}
+#endif
 
 	/*
 	 * Take the local apic timer and PIT/HPET into account. We don't
Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -814,12 +814,14 @@ int __kprobes nmi_watchdog_tick(struct p
 
 	__profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
 
+#if 0
 	/* check for other users first */
 	if (notify_die(DIE_NMI, "nmi", regs, reason, 2, SIGINT)
 			== NOTIFY_STOP) {
 		rc = 1;
 		touched = 1;
 	}
+#endif
 
 	sum = read_pda(apic_timer_irqs);
 	if (nmi_show_regs[cpu]) {

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Ingo Molnar]

* Hu Gang <linuxbest@gmail.com> wrote:

> > thanks, applied. I'll let the PPC -rt folks sort out the hack effects. 
> > Do you have CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS enabled?
> no.
> 
> 
> [hugang@:~]$ uname -a
> Linux hugang.soulinfo.com 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 #2 PREEMPT Wed Nov 29 09:29:43 UTC 2006 ppc GNU/Linux 
> [hugang@:~]$ zgrep CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS /proc/config.gz 
> [hugang@:~]$

could you send me your config? (i'm just curious what else is 
enabled/disabled)

	Ingo

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Ingo Molnar]

* Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de> wrote:

> After estimated 15 minutes more it bugged again.
> Related dmesg translates to linux error
> 	-EXDEV
> propably caused by the following lines:
> 
> <snip>
> static int uhci_result_isochronous(struct uhci_hcd *uhci, struct urb *urb)

hm. Below are all the USB changes done by -rt. Maybe one of them has 
some side-effect?

	Ingo

Index: linux/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
+++ linux/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
@@ -309,10 +309,11 @@ static void async_completed(struct urb *
         struct async *as = urb->context;
         struct dev_state *ps = as->ps;
 	struct siginfo sinfo;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-        spin_lock(&ps->lock);
-        list_move_tail(&as->asynclist, &ps->async_completed);
-        spin_unlock(&ps->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&ps->lock, flags);
+	list_move_tail(&as->asynclist, &ps->async_completed);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ps->lock, flags);
 	if (as->signr) {
 		sinfo.si_signo = as->signr;
 		sinfo.si_errno = as->urb->status;
Index: linux/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
+++ linux/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
@@ -517,13 +517,11 @@ error:
 	}
 
 	/* any errors get returned through the urb completion */
-	local_irq_save (flags);
-	spin_lock (&urb->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&urb->lock, flags);
 	if (urb->status == -EINPROGRESS)
 		urb->status = status;
-	spin_unlock (&urb->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&urb->lock, flags);
 	usb_hcd_giveback_urb (hcd, urb);
-	local_irq_restore (flags);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -551,8 +549,7 @@ void usb_hcd_poll_rh_status(struct usb_h
 	if (length > 0) {
 
 		/* try to complete the status urb */
-		local_irq_save (flags);
-		spin_lock(&hcd_root_hub_lock);
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&hcd_root_hub_lock, flags);
 		urb = hcd->status_urb;
 		if (urb) {
 			spin_lock(&urb->lock);
@@ -568,14 +565,13 @@ void usb_hcd_poll_rh_status(struct usb_h
 			spin_unlock(&urb->lock);
 		} else
 			length = 0;
-		spin_unlock(&hcd_root_hub_lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hcd_root_hub_lock, flags);
 
 		/* local irqs are always blocked in completions */
 		if (length > 0)
 			usb_hcd_giveback_urb (hcd, urb);
 		else
 			hcd->poll_pending = 1;
-		local_irq_restore (flags);
 	}
 
 	/* The USB 2.0 spec says 256 ms.  This is close enough and won't
@@ -647,17 +643,15 @@ static int usb_rh_urb_dequeue (struct us
 	} else {				/* Status URB */
 		if (!hcd->uses_new_polling)
 			del_timer (&hcd->rh_timer);
-		local_irq_save (flags);
-		spin_lock (&hcd_root_hub_lock);
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&hcd_root_hub_lock, flags);
 		if (urb == hcd->status_urb) {
 			hcd->status_urb = NULL;
 			urb->hcpriv = NULL;
 		} else
 			urb = NULL;		/* wasn't fully queued */
-		spin_unlock (&hcd_root_hub_lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hcd_root_hub_lock, flags);
 		if (urb)
 			usb_hcd_giveback_urb (hcd, urb);
-		local_irq_restore (flags);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1311,11 +1305,9 @@ void usb_hcd_endpoint_disable (struct us
 	WARN_ON (!HC_IS_RUNNING (hcd->state) && hcd->state != HC_STATE_HALT &&
 			udev->state != USB_STATE_NOTATTACHED);
 
-	local_irq_disable ();
-
 	/* ep is already gone from udev->ep_{in,out}[]; no more submits */
 rescan:
-	spin_lock (&hcd_data_lock);
+	spin_lock_irq(&hcd_data_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry (urb, &ep->urb_list, urb_list) {
 		int	tmp;
 
@@ -1323,13 +1315,13 @@ rescan:
 		if (urb->status != -EINPROGRESS)
 			continue;
 		usb_get_urb (urb);
-		spin_unlock (&hcd_data_lock);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&hcd_data_lock);
 
-		spin_lock (&urb->lock);
+		spin_lock_irq(&urb->lock);
 		tmp = urb->status;
 		if (tmp == -EINPROGRESS)
 			urb->status = -ESHUTDOWN;
-		spin_unlock (&urb->lock);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&urb->lock);
 
 		/* kick hcd unless it's already returning this */
 		if (tmp == -EINPROGRESS) {
@@ -1352,8 +1344,7 @@ rescan:
 		/* list contents may have changed */
 		goto rescan;
 	}
-	spin_unlock (&hcd_data_lock);
-	local_irq_enable ();
+	spin_unlock_irq(&hcd_data_lock);
 
 	/* synchronize with the hardware, so old configuration state
 	 * clears out immediately (and will be freed).
Index: linux/drivers/usb/core/message.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/usb/core/message.c
+++ linux/drivers/usb/core/message.c
@@ -249,8 +249,9 @@ static void sg_clean (struct usb_sg_requ
 static void sg_complete (struct urb *urb)
 {
 	struct usb_sg_request	*io = urb->context;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock (&io->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave (&io->lock, flags);
 
 	/* In 2.5 we require hcds' endpoint queues not to progress after fault
 	 * reports, until the completion callback (this!) returns.  That lets
@@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ static void sg_complete (struct urb *urb
 		 * unlink pending urbs so they won't rx/tx bad data.
 		 * careful: unlink can sometimes be synchronous...
 		 */
-		spin_unlock (&io->lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore (&io->lock, flags);
 		for (i = 0, found = 0; i < io->entries; i++) {
 			if (!io->urbs [i] || !io->urbs [i]->dev)
 				continue;
@@ -299,7 +300,7 @@ static void sg_complete (struct urb *urb
 			} else if (urb == io->urbs [i])
 				found = 1;
 		}
-		spin_lock (&io->lock);
+		spin_lock_irqsave (&io->lock, flags);
 	}
 	urb->dev = NULL;
 
@@ -309,7 +310,7 @@ static void sg_complete (struct urb *urb
 	if (!io->count)
 		complete (&io->complete);
 
-	spin_unlock (&io->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore (&io->lock, flags);
 }
 
 
@@ -571,7 +572,7 @@ void usb_sg_cancel (struct usb_sg_reques
 				dev_warn (&io->dev->dev, "%s, unlink --> %d\n",
 					__FUNCTION__, retval);
 		}
-		spin_lock (&io->lock);
+		spin_lock_irqsave (&io->lock, flags);
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore (&io->lock, flags);
 }
Index: linux/drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c
+++ linux/drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c
@@ -898,6 +898,8 @@ static void tx_complete (struct urb *urb
 
 	urb->dev = NULL;
 	entry->state = tx_done;
+	spin_lock_rt(&dev->txq.lock);
+	spin_unlock_rt(&dev->txq.lock);
 	defer_bh(dev, skb, &dev->txq);
 }
 

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Hu Gang]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:49:27 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from 
> the usual place:
> 
>     http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/

attached patch to making it compile and works in my PowerBook G4. 


Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6-rt5/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc6-rt5.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c	2006-11-28 22:13:54.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-rt5/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c	2006-11-28 22:15:48.000000000 +0000
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@
 		if (per_cpu(last_jiffy, cpu) >= tb_next_jiffy) {
 			tb_last_jiffy = tb_next_jiffy;
 			do_timer(1);
-			timer_recalc_offset(tb_last_jiffy);
+			/*timer_recalc_offset(tb_last_jiffy);*/
 			timer_check_rtc();
 		}
 		write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock);
Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6-rt5/include/asm-powerpc/semaphore.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc6-rt5.orig/include/asm-powerpc/semaphore.h	2006-11-28 22:13:54.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-rt5/include/asm-powerpc/semaphore.h	2006-11-28 22:15:48.000000000 +0000
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-#include <linux/config.h>
+/*#include <linux/config.h>*/
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
 #include <linux/wait.h>
Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6-rt5/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc6-rt5.orig/mm/page_alloc.c	2006-11-28 22:13:54.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-rt5/mm/page_alloc.c	2006-11-28 22:15:48.000000000 +0000
@@ -2800,7 +2800,9 @@
 
 void __init page_alloc_init(void)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 	hotcpu_notifier(page_alloc_cpu_notify, 0);
+#endif
 }
 
 /*

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Karsten Wiese]

Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2006 08:06 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> * Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de> wrote:
> > After estimated 15 minutes more it bugged again.
> > Related dmesg translates to linux error
> > 	-EXDEV
> > propably caused by the following lines:
> >
> > <snip>
> > static int uhci_result_isochronous(struct uhci_hcd *uhci, struct
> > urb *urb)
>
> hm. Below are all the USB changes done by -rt. Maybe one of them has
> some side-effect?

On rc6-rt5 rt-audio with usb-sound runs just fine so far,
and I didn't find any USB changes between rc6-rt5 and rc6-rt8.

      Karsten

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

[Hu Gang]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:41:09 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Hu Gang <linuxbest@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:49:27 +0100
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > 
> > > i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from 
> > > the usual place:
> > > 
> > >     http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> > 
> > attached patch to making it compile and works in my PowerBook G4. 
> 
> thanks, applied. I'll let the PPC -rt folks sort out the hack effects. 
> Do you have CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS enabled?
no.


[hugang@:~]$ uname -a
Linux hugang.soulinfo.com 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 #2 PREEMPT Wed Nov 29 09:29:43 UTC 2006 ppc GNU/Linux 
[hugang@:~]$ zgrep CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS /proc/config.gz 
[hugang@:~]$