Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc6-rt7 | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:58:01 +0100 |
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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
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