linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] restore the RCU callback to defer put_task

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Date:	Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:44:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Robert Crocombe <rcrocomb@...il.com>
cc:	hui Bill Huey <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] restore the RCU callback to defer put_task_struct() Re:
 Problems with 2.6.17-rt8

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Robert Crocombe wrote:

> On 8/8/06, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > How far back do you get this bug?  I mean if you go back and test the
> > previous kernels, where did you start seeing this?
>
> I have so far been unable to provoke the problem under 2.6.16-rt29.
>
> I was able to provoke things once easily under 17-rt1, but subsequent
> attempts to trigger the bug have so far yielded no results.
>
> I'm back to poking at 16-rt29 to see if the problem is simply somewhat
> less likely.

Is it easy to poke the problem with -rt8?  Just want to know if -rt8 has
caused the problem to be more prevalent.

-- Steve

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