linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.29.6-rt23

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Message-Id: <1247562753.2473.4.camel@ht.satnam>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:42:33 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@...ma.Stanford.EDU>,
	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>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@...ell.com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.29.6-rt23

On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 20:29 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:25 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt
> > > series.
> > >  
> > >      - update to 2.6.29.6
> > >  
> > >      - compile fixes (Wu Zhangjin)
> > > 
> > >      - powerpc highmem fix
> > > 
> > >      - hwlat smp_processor_id() fix (Carsten)
> > > 
> > >      - ktime_get* speedups (Martin)
> > 
> > I'm getting slightly weird behavior from rt23 in an intel quad core
> > machine (my T61 laptop is fine), rt22 was fine. It is some timer issue,
> > if I type continuously I get (every few seconds) repeated keys. Nothing
> > in the logs, nothing in dmesg that is (significantly) different from an
> > rt22 boot. 
> 
> Hmm. The only change which touches timer related stuff is the ktime*
> speedups. Can you please apply the revert patch below and check
> whether that changes anything? If not, then we need to look at the
> 2.6.29.5 -> .6 delta.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
> -----
> diff --git b/kernel/hrtimer.c a/kernel/hrtimer.c
> index 93affb0..cb8a15c 100644
> --- b/kernel/hrtimer.c
> +++ a/kernel/hrtimer.c
> @@ -46,6 +46,37 @@
>  
>  #include <asm/uaccess.h>
>  
> +/**
> + * ktime_get - get the monotonic time in ktime_t format
> + *
> + * returns the time in ktime_t format
> + */
> +ktime_t ktime_get(void)
> +{
> +	struct timespec now;
> +
> +	ktime_get_ts(&now);
> +
> +	return timespec_to_ktime(now);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get);
> +
> +/**
> + * ktime_get_real - get the real (wall-) time in ktime_t format
> + *
> + * returns the time in ktime_t format
> + */
> +ktime_t ktime_get_real(void)
> +{
> +	struct timespec now;
> +
> +	getnstimeofday(&now);
> +
> +	return timespec_to_ktime(now);
> +}
> +
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_real);
> +

Remove extra line before EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_real);

--
JSR

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