These two WARN_ON calls send my system into a boot hang. They trigger over and over , some examples below. [ 58.438501] WARNING: at kernel/sched.c:3785 schedule() [ 58.443444] [<c039b224>] schedule+0x74/0x110 [ 58.447772] [<c039a67f>] rest_init+0x4f/0x60 [ 58.452092] [<c0490a8f>] start_kernel+0x2cf/0x310 [ 58.456848] [<c0490210>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x250 [ 58.461951] ======================= [ 58.465496] WARNING: at kernel/sched.c:3683 schedule_debug() [ 58.471118] [<c039ae0c>] __schedule+0x4cc/0x760 [ 58.475702] [<c010511a>] print_trace_address+0x1a/0x30 [ 58.480893] [<c0129a2b>] printk+0x1b/0x20 [ 58.484957] [<c01051f8>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x28/0x30 [ 58.490060] [<c039b1de>] schedule+0x2e/0x110 [ 58.494385] [<c039a67f>] rest_init+0x4f/0x60 [ 58.498709] [<c0490a8f>] start_kernel+0x2cf/0x310 [ 58.503465] [<c0490210>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x250 [ 58.508569] ======================= On closer inspection I'm not sure they are correctly placed. They could trigger or not depending on when/if certain threads run. Here is a patch to comment them out. 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 17:18:38.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.22.1/kernel/sched.c 2007-07-22 17:17:48.000000000 +0000 @@ -3680,7 +3680,7 @@ static noinline void __schedule_bug(stru */ static inline void schedule_debug(struct task_struct *prev) { - WARN_ON(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING); + //WARN_ON(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING); /* * Test if we are atomic. Since do_exit() needs to call into @@ -3782,7 +3782,7 @@ asmlinkage void __sched __schedule(void) */ asmlinkage void __sched schedule(void) { - WARN_ON(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING); + //WARN_ON(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING); /* * Test if we have interrupts disabled. */ - 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