Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268751AbUJSM5J (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:57:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269190AbUJSM5J (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:57:09 -0400 Received: from www2.muking.org ([216.231.42.228]:26459 "HELO www2.muking.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268751AbUJSM5G (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:57:06 -0400 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Revell , Rui Nuno Capela , Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com, "K.R. Foley" , Bill Huey , Adam Heath , Florian Schmidt Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U5 References: <20041011215909.GA20686@elte.hu> <20041012091501.GA18562@elte.hu> <20041012123318.GA2102@elte.hu> <20041012195424.GA3961@elte.hu> <20041013061518.GA1083@elte.hu> <20041014002433.GA19399@elte.hu> <20041014143131.GA20258@elte.hu> <20041014234202.GA26207@elte.hu> <20041015102633.GA20132@elte.hu> <20041016153344.GA16766@elte.hu> <20041018145008.GA25707@elte.hu> From: Kevin Hilman Organization: None to speak of. Date: 19 Oct 2004 05:57:05 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20041018145008.GA25707@elte.hu> Message-ID: <83wtxmuaqm.fsf@www2.muking.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 19 Ingo Molnar writes: > i have released the -U5 Real-Time Preemption patch: [...] > the generic semaphore implementation (which uses rwsems) makes it > possible to use the deadlock detection mechanism for all the mutex types > we currently have: semaphores, rw-semaphores, spinlock-mutexes and > rwlock-mutexes. Another benefit is that PREEMPT_REALTIME becomes much > more portable this way. (although it's still x86-only at the moment.) Speaking of portability, is anyone yet working on ports to other platforms? I'm particularily interested in ARM. If anyone has started on ARM, I'd be glad to help out. Kevin http://hilman.org/kevin/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/