To: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       general@lists.openfabrics.org,
       Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH] [WORKAROUND] CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT and ib_umad_close() issue
References: <46EE9BCC.1040301@ccur.com>
From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:56:01 -0700
In-Reply-To: <46EE9BCC.1040301@ccur.com> (John Blackwood's message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:22:52 -0400")
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 > When using OFED-1.2.5 based infiniband kernel modules on 2.6.22 based
 > kernels with the Ingo Molnar CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT applied, then commands
 > such as ibnetdiscvoer, smpquery, sminfo, etc. will hang.  The problem
 > is with the downgrade_write() rw semaphore usage in the
 > ib_umad_close() routine.

Can you give a few more details on how PREEMPT_RT changes locking
rules (or just exposes existing bugs maybe?) so that the
downgrade_write() causes the issue?  I would like to fix this cleanly
but I don't really understand what the problem is.

 - R.
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