Hi, On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, John Kacur wrote: > I took Jon Masters' latest hwlat_detector patch for upstream, and grabbed > the bits that aren't currently in -rt. The patch is fairly small. > > Please consider it for the next -rt release. Not really. > diff --git a/drivers/misc/hwlat_detector.c b/drivers/misc/hwlat_detector.c > index be6553f..7191e17 100644 > --- a/drivers/misc/hwlat_detector.c > +++ b/drivers/misc/hwlat_detector.c > @@ -262,6 +262,8 @@ static int get_sample(void *unused) > /* Keep a running maximum ever recorded hardware latency */ > if (sample > data.max_sample) > data.max_sample = sample; > + > + wake_up(&data.wq); /* wake up reader(s) */ > } > > ret = 0; > @@ -299,8 +301,6 @@ static int kthread_fn(void *unused) > goto err_out; > } > > - wake_up(&data.wq); /* wake up reader(s) */ > - This reverts -rt commit 5fc485f6341c177e9d5f641c6fb9e33ca465aa84. CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP resp. CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT will tell you why this is a bad idea on -rt :) Thanks, tglx -- 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