Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751641AbWCRM5w (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:57:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751642AbWCRM5w (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:57:52 -0500 Received: from 213-239-205-134.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.134]:23770 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751638AbWCRM5v (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:57:51 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc6-rt7 From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Tom Rini Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Stultz , Lee Revell , Martin Ridgeway In-Reply-To: <20060318125425.GA32662@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <20060316095607.GA28571@elte.hu> <20060317233636.GB26253@smtp.west.cox.net> <1142678240.17279.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060318125425.GA32662@smtp.west.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:58:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1142686681.17279.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1381 Lines: 39 On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 05:54 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 11:37:19AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 16:36 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:56:08AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > > i have released the 2.6.16-rc6-rt7 tree, which can be downloaded from > > > > the usual place: > > > > > > > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > > > > > I was wondering, is it normal for the nanosleep02 and alarm02 LTP tests > > > to fail? For sometime I've seen these tests fail from time to time with > > > the -RT patch but not the regular kernel. > > > > The nanosleep02 failure is incorrect due to rounding errors in the test > > code. > [snip] > > This never happens on vanilla, as the nanosleep is rounded to the next > > jiffie. -rt has high resolution timers which are delivered accurate, so > > the rounding errors of the testcode surface. > > Thanks! Any ideas about the alarm02 test? Yes. Its due (unsigned int) -> long conversion and a missing check. That one affects mainline as well. I'm fixing this one right now. Patch follows. tglx - 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/