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    SubjectRe: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U8

    * Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> wrote:

    > Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > >* Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> wrote:
    > >>I'm getting these BUGs when I use netconsole with Real-Time Preemption
    > >>(but netconsole works):
    > >
    > >
    > >you are getting them because interrupts get disabled somewhere in the
    > >path. Do your changes perhaps introduce a local_irq_save() or
    > >local_irq_disable()?
    > >
    >
    > I'm attaching my sk98lin patch. It uses disable_irq(). It's inspired
    > by 8139too.

    disable_irq() should work fine though. (it doesnt disable local
    interrupts, it only disables that particular irq line.) So something
    else disabled interrupts - ah, netconsole.c itself. Does the patch below
    fix things up for you?

    Ingo

    --- linux/drivers/net/netconsole.c.orig
    +++ linux/drivers/net/netconsole.c
    @@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ static void write_msg(struct console *co
    if (!np.dev)
    return;

    +#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_REALTIME
    local_irq_save(flags);
    +#endif

    for(left = len; left; ) {
    frag = min(left, MAX_PRINT_CHUNK);
    @@ -82,7 +84,9 @@ static void write_msg(struct console *co
    left -= frag;
    }

    +#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_REALTIME
    local_irq_restore(flags);
    +#endif
    }

    static struct console netconsole = {
    -
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