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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0905131217240.3561@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 12:19:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Hugo Vincent <hugo.vincent@...il.com>
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>,
	Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@...ma.stanford.edu>,
	Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@...t.ibm.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@...ell.com>
Subject: Re: [Announce] 2.6.29.3-rt12

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Hugo Vincent wrote:
> This patch resulted in a broken build for me, until I did this:
> 
> --- a/patch-2.6.29.3-rt12
> +++ b/patch-2.6.29.3-rt12
> @@ -121754,7 +121754,7 @@ Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/sched.c
>   }
> 
>   /*
> -@@ -2801,6 +3177,15 @@ static void update_cpu_load(struct rq *t
> +@@ -2801,6 +3177,17 @@ static void update_cpu_load(struct rq *t
>   			new_load += scale-1;
>   		this_rq->cpu_load[i] = (old_load*(scale-1) + new_load) >> i;
>   	}
> @@ -121765,8 +121765,10 @@ Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/sched.c
>  +	this_rq->calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ;
>  +	calc_load_account_active(this_rq);
>  +
> ++#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  +	if (this_rq->cpu == calc_load_cpu)
>  +		calc_global_load();
> ++#endif
>   }

Darn. the patch is halfways right. the #ifdef needs to be only around
the if() line. Otherwise your /proc/loadavg values will never be
updated. I'll push out -rt13 with the proper fix..

Thanks,

	tglx
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