Ingo Molnar wrote: > i have released the v2.6.20-rt1 kernel... Ingo, There appears to be a bug in the patch for include/asm-mips/atomic.h In the hunk for line 554, it has 2 #endifs. I think it should only have one. A portion of the patch reads: Index: new-linux/include/asm-mips/atomic.h =================================================================== --- new-linux.orig/include/asm-mips/atomic.h 2007-04-25 20:08:32.000000000 -0700 +++ new-linux/include/asm-mips/atomic.h 2007-04-26 16:15:14.000000000 -0700 @@ -545,7 +554,9 @@ : "=&r" (result), "=&r" (temp), "=m" (v->counter) : "Ir" (i), "m" (v->counter) : "memory"); - } else { + } +#if !defined(CONFIG_NO_SPINLOCK) && !defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) + else { unsigned long flags; raw_local_irq_save(flags); @@ -554,6 +565,8 @@ v->counter = result; raw_local_irq_restore(flags); } +#endif +#endif smp_mb(); When I applied the patch to 2.6.21 and tried to compile for MIPS I got: CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CC arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.s In file included from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/include/linux/rt_lock.h:14, from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/include/linux/spinlock.h:116, from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/include/linux/capability.h:45, from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/include/linux/sched.h:47, from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14: include2/asm/atomic.h:571: error: expected '(' before 'volatile' include2/asm/atomic.h:573: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'return' include2/asm/atomic.h:574: error: expected identifier or '(' before '}' token include2/asm/atomic.h:576: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'atomic64_t' include2/asm/atomic.h: In function 'atomic64_sub_return': include2/asm/atomic.h:593: error: 'v' undeclared (first use in this function) include2/asm/atomic.h:593: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once include2/asm/atomic.h:593: error: for each function it appears in.) include2/asm/atomic.h:585: error: invalid lvalue in asm output 2 include2/asm/atomic.h:585: error: memory input 4 is not directly addressable include2/asm/atomic.h:599: error: invalid lvalue in asm output 2 include2/asm/atomic.h:599: error: memory input 4 is not directly addressable include2/asm/atomic.h: At top level: include2/asm/atomic.h:638: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'atomic64_t' include2/asm/atomic.h: In function 'atomic64_sub_if_positive': include2/asm/atomic.h:659: error: 'v' undeclared (first use in this function) include2/asm/atomic.h:647: error: invalid lvalue in asm output 2 include2/asm/atomic.h:647: error: memory input 4 is not directly addressable include2/asm/atomic.h:665: error: invalid lvalue in asm output 2 include2/asm/atomic.h:665: error: memory input 4 is not directly addressable In file included from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/include/linux/rt_lock.h:14, from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/include/linux/spinlock.h:116, from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/include/linux/capability.h:45, from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/include/linux/sched.h:47, from /home/tbird/work/alp-3.0/alp-linux/arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14: include2/asm/atomic.h:779:2: error: #endif without #if After removing the second #endif in the second hunk above, things compiled better. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics ============================= - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html