Strange rcu_read_unlock() which causes a imbalance, and boot hang.. I didn't notice a reason for it, and removing it allows my system to make progress. This should go into the preempt-realtime-sched.patch Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6.22.1/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22.1.orig/kernel/sched.c 2007-07-22 16:47:37.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.22.1/kernel/sched.c 2007-07-22 16:16:48.000000000 +0000 @@ -4900,7 +4900,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_sched_yield(void) * no need to preempt or enable interrupts: */ spin_unlock_no_resched(&rq->lock); - rcu_read_unlock(); __schedule(); - 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