2.6.14-rc4-rt1

Ingo Molnar
2005-10-11T11:14:31Z

i have released the 2.6.14-rc4-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from
the usual place:

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

lots of fixes all across the spectrum. x64 support and debugging
features on x64 should be in a much better shape now. Same for ARM.

Ingo

Changes since 2.6.14-rc3-rt2:

- fix nasty memory corruption and crash caused by PREEMPT_DEBUG's
lock tracing functionality (Thomas Gleixner)

- ARM updates (Thomas Gleixner)

- get rid of bit_spinlock via ->b_state_lock (Steven Rostedt)

- ACPI flags mismatch fix (Steven Rostedt)

- softlockup false positive fix (Daniel Walker)

- robust/PI futex updates (David Singleton)

- timesource/ktimer updates (Thomas Gleixner)

- pcmcia shutdown hang fix (Steven Rostedt)

- fix missing checks for resched

- merge to 2.6.14-rc4

- vprintk non-preempt fix

- various x64 fixes

- netfilter build fixes

- various latency tracer fixes

- use exact BP stackframes when printing stack-overflow debugging info,
if x86 and x64, if possible.

- ide-floppy irq flags fix

- gameport irq flags fix

- stack footprint debugging fixes

- small MIPS updates

- reduce zlib stack footprint

- got rid of the last remains of the tlb-simple stuff

- various build fixes of non-PREEMPT_RT preemption models

- Kconfig tweak

- export tsc_c3_compensate

to build a 2.6.14-rc4-rt1 tree, the following patches should be applied:

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.13.tar.bz2
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.14-rc4.bz2
http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.14-rc4-rt1

Ingo