linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] 2.6.29.1-rt4

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Date:	Sat, 4 Apr 2009 06:30:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@...ma.Stanford.EDU>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Carsten Emde <ce@...g.ch>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
	Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...sony.com>,
	Robin Gareus <robin@...eus.org>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Philippe Reynes <philippe.reynes@...smpp.fr>,
	Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@...t.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Announce] 2.6.29.1-rt4

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 19:21 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt
> > series.
> >   
> > 	- rebased to 2.6.29.1
> > 
> > 	- powerpc64 tlb rework fix by Peter
> 
> Thanks for cc'ing me...
> 
> Just a heads up. I'm still having shutdown/suspend problems with this
> release as before (I had not reported the suspend problem, I think -
> machine hangs and has to be power cycled). Booting with "noreplace-smp"
> fixes both. Is this something I could disable through configuration
> options?

No. I have this shutdown/suspend thing on my todo list. Can you send
me your .config please ? This happens with the stock -rt kernel or do
you have other patches on top of it ?
 
> I was also seeing a hard hang when running a java program (with the
> Fedora 10 open source java) - the swingosc gui component of
> SuperCollider 3 (a computer music synthesis program). Impossible to know
> what had failed, machine completely catatonic and nothing left on the
> logs. 
> 
> I managed to start the same program _once_ (have not tested again) with
> 2.6.29.1/rt4 + some patches & config from fc10' koji 2.6.29.1-15. The
> mouse seemed to pause a couple of times and then I killed the program.
> Restarting it again was successful. Sorry to not have more hard info...

Too bad that I can't find my crystal ball :)

Thanks,

	tglx
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