linux-kernel - Re: sparc64 / bbc

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Date:	Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:58:48 +0000 (GMT)
From:	"J.J.Green" <j.j.green@...ffield.ac.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sparc64 / bbc_i2c.c

Hi Andrew

> The code around there looks relatively unbuggy to me.  Removing that
> remove_wait_queue() would be very bad - it would cause later stack
> corruption.
>
> msleep_interruptible() certainly shouldn't consume CPU like that.  Do we
> know where the CPU time is being spent?  The output of:
>
> readprofile -r
> sleep 10
> readprofile -n -v -m /boot/System.map | sort -n -k 3 | tail -40
>
> would tell us.

As was mentioned in another reply, this message by
Joerg Friedrich

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/02/msg00045.html

gives a possible explanantion of where the time is going.
I applied the patch to the debian kernel sources for 2.6.18,
it applied cleanly and fixed the problem.

I have the upatched kernel in /boot so I can run the tests
you mentioned fairly easily -- please let me know if you'd
still like me to do that.

Jim
-- 
J.J. Green, Dept. Applied Mathematics, Hicks Bld.,
University of Sheffield, UK.   +44 (0114) 222 3742
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