Re: CPU hotplug and IRQ affinity with 2.6.24-rt1

["Gregory Haskins" <ghaskins@novell.com>]

>>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at  9:51 PM, in message
<20080205025144.GA31774@dwalker1.mvista.com>, Daniel Walker
<dwalker@dwalker1.mvista.com> wrote: 
> I get the following when I tried it,
> 
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context bash(5126) at
> kernel/rtmutex.c:638
> in_atomic():1 [00000001], irqs_disabled():1

Hi Daniel,
  Can you try this patch and let me know if it fixes your problem?

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use rcu for root-domain kfree

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index e6ad493..77e86c1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ struct root_domain {
        atomic_t refcount;
        cpumask_t span;
        cpumask_t online;
+       struct rcu_head rcu;

        /*
         * The "RT overload" flag: it gets set if a CPU has more than
@@ -6222,6 +6223,12 @@ sd_parent_degenerate(struct sched_domain *sd, struct sched_domain *parent)
        return 1;
 }

+/* rcu callback to free a root-domain */
+static void rq_free_root(struct rcu_head *rcu)
+{
+       kfree(container_of(rcu, struct root_domain, rcu));
+}
+
 static void rq_attach_root(struct rq *rq, struct root_domain *rd)
 {
        unsigned long flags;
@@ -6241,7 +6248,7 @@ static void rq_attach_root(struct rq *rq, struct root_domain *rd)
                cpu_clear(rq->cpu, old_rd->online);

                if (atomic_dec_and_test(&old_rd->refcount))
-                       kfree(old_rd);
+                       call_rcu(&old_rd->rcu, rq_free_root);
        }

        atomic_inc(&rd->refcount);