Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rt6, ktimer subsystem
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, dwalker@mvista.com,
       George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:36:49 -0400
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On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 22:10 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:00 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > i have released the 2.6.13-rt6 tree, which can be downloaded from the 
> > > usual place:
> > > 
> > >   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> > 
> > 
> > Ingo,
> > 
> > Is this supposed to work on amd64?  Lots of people on linux-audio-user 
> > report that it just reboots immediately when booting the kernel.  I 
> > have the .configs if you want them.
> 
> it wont even build right now, due to the ktimer changes. I'll fix x64 up 
> once things have settled down a bit. (but if someone does patches i'll 
> sure apply them)

The problem apparently affected 2.6.13-rt4 too.  The users reported that
it built OK (as long as realtime preemption is enabled) but then reboots
as soon as grub loads the kernel.

Can this be worked around by disabling CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS?

Lee


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