Hi! > In case anyone wants to play with it, and especially help clean it up :) > > SMI events are particularly unhelpful on Real Time systems because we > effectively have the CPU stolen from under us. We can't prevent this > easily without BIOS vendors/system vendor co-operation, but we can help > to diagnose and log that these are occuring...which can be very helpful > too. > > Cheers, > > Jon. > > This patch adds the module smi_detector under drivers/misc > > Code from Jon Masters with small changes from Luis Goncalves and > documentation from Clark Williams. > > --- > diff -uNp a/drivers/misc/Makefile b/drivers/misc/Makefile > --- a/drivers/misc/Makefile 2009-01-09 13:25:31.000000000 -0200 > +++ b/drivers/misc/Makefile 2009-01-15 10:55:58.000000000 -0200 > @@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SONY_LAPTOP) += sony-laptop > obj-$(CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI) += thinkpad_acpi.o > obj-$(CONFIG_FUJITSU_LAPTOP) += fujitsu-laptop.o > obj-$(CONFIG_EEPROM_93CX6) += eeprom_93cx6.o > +obj-m += smi_detector.o > + Please use Kconfig here. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
