Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | 2.6.25.8-rt7 | | From | Steven Rostedt <> | | Date | Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:34:17 -0400 |
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We are pleased to announce the 2.6.25.8-rt7 tree, which can be downloaded from the location:
http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/
Information on the RT patch can be found at:
http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
Changes since 2.6.25.4-rt6
- ported to 2.6.25.8
- rwlock pi_lock fixes on waking up multiple readers (Steven Rostedt)
- revert adaptive locks from RCU (Thomas Gleixner) [ for some reason, using RCU causes some latency spikes, this may be a sign of something going wrong in RCU itself ]
- rwlock mutex owner fix for waking up reader with readers held (Steven Rostedt)
- rwlock remove waiter from pi_list on above fix (Steven Rostedt and Thomas Gleixner)
- rwlock replace macro with inline (Thomas Gleixner)
- rwlock pending namespace updates (Thomas Gleixner)
- futex fix fault (Thomas Gleixner)
to build a 2.6.25.8-rt7 tree, the following patches should be applied:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2 http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.25.8.bz2 http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/patch-2.6.25.8-rt7.bz2
And like always, my RT version of Matt Mackall's ketchup will get this for you nicely:
http://people.redhat.com/srostedt/rt/tools/ketchup-0.9.8-rt3
The broken out patches are also available.
-- Steve
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