On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, John Kacur wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 17:16 +0100, John Kacur wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm testing v3.0.14-rt32-rc1, and it greatly reduced the number of
> >> these, but I still got one during boot.
> >>
> >> [   11.938649] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> >> /home/jkacur/rt.linux.git/kernel/rtmutex.c:645
> >> [   11.938651] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 168, name: irq/9-acpi
> >> [   11.938653] 1 lock held by irq/9-acpi/168:
> >> [   11.938653]  #0:  (acpi_gbl_gpe_lock){......}, at:
> >> [<ffffffff8123881d>] acpi_ev_gpe_detect+0x31/0x110
> >
> > Could you test 3.2-rt. If that has the issue then we know we have more
> > to fix. If not, we know I missed a patch.
> >
> 
> I tested with v3.2-rt10 and the issue is not there.

I'm surprised. I know already what the problem is and according to the
code it should be visible in 3.2 as well. I'm still twisting my head
around that acpi maze to fix that particular one.

> I also examined your patches and couldn't find anything wrong with
> them, and for larks tried applying
> cpumask-disable-offstack-on-rt.patch from v3.2-rt10
> all to no avail, the problem is still there.

What a surprise, it's completely unrelated.