From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760686AbZDBQCo (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:02:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752784AbZDBQCe (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:02:34 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:58826 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751805AbZDBQCc (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:02:32 -0400 Subject: Re: [Announce] 2.6.29-rt2 From: Will Schmidt Reply-To: will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , rt-users , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra , Carsten Emde , Clark Williams , Frank Rowand , Robin Gareus , Gregory Haskins , Philippe Reynes , Fernando Lopez-Lezcano In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:02:25 -0500 Message-Id: <1238688145.8813.16.camel@lexx> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 02:17 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt > series. > > - fix a fork/exit bug in the signal per task cache (/me puts on > a huge brown paper bag - Thanks to Phillipe Reynes and Will > Schmidt for reporting and testing) > > - fix a group scheduling migration accounting bug (decoded with > and fixed by Peter Zijlstra - reported by Robin Gareus) > > - tlb gather rework by Peter Zijlstra - Thanks Peter ! > > - the usual fixlets > > The tlb rework might be incomplete on some of the uncountable > incarnations of PowerPC and ARM platforms, so look out for wreckage > and keep the usual tools (fire-extinguishers, brooms, buckets etc.) > handy. I can confirm that the tlb rework does appear to be missing some parts for Power. (Using 2.6.29-rt3 on pseries ppc64) arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o:(.toc1+0x4d0): undefined reference to `per_cpu__ppc64_tlb_batch' <...> mm/built-in.o:(.toc1+0xed0): more undefined references to `per_cpu__ppc64_tlb_batch' follow Not clear to me if this is just missing a "DEFINE_PER_CPU_LOCKED" to replace the removed "DEFINE_PER_CPU", (similar to the prior RT patches), or if the tlb rework is more involved. So, I will patiently remain tuned in. :-) Thanks, -Will