Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: realtime-preempt 2.6.16-rt7-10 bug? | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:40:57 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 15:57 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 02:33 +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote: > > i've compiled the 2.6.16 kernel with the realtime-preempt patches, but > > have run into some problems while using Ardour for realtime audio. > > Ardour crashes whenever i stop recording, and after running dmesg i'm > > suspecting a bug in the realtime patch (i've tried rt7 and rt10, both > > have the same problem): > > > > Hmm, this may be a bug in Ardour. Since it's for realtime audio, I > assume that it knows about the timeofday hack, which is the only way to > get this bug. The user application set itself to be uninterruptible by > calling gettimeofday with the two pointers and the integer 1. This sets > the task's flag to be uninterruptible (PF_NOSCHED). But then it did a > write to the file system (ext3) which did a schedule. Thus you got a > BUG.
Specifically it unlinked a file.
Shayne, is your /tmp a tmpfs or ext3?
Lee
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