Hi all,
I know it's OT ... but what is the real name of
- "real time kernel (2.6.22.19-0.14-rt)"
- "!RT kernel"
- "-rt kernel"
Any ideas ? Is it the RTP kernel --- P stands for pre-emption ?
--Armin
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Leggo, Adam (UK) wrote:
Hello,
What is the best way of converting an existing device driver to work
under a real-time kernel?
A device driver provided for a special serial card (Curtiss Wright SL240
sFDFP card http://www.cwcembedded.com/products/0/1/461.html) works under
vanilla Linux (SLES SP10 SP2 kernel 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp), but compiling
the driver under the real time kernel (2.6.22.19-0.14-rt) the system
locks up and crashes. The rt kernel is being used to write large amounts
of data from the serial card to disk and testing has found the rt kernel
has the best consistent write performance.
I have gone back to the supplier and they are not interested in
developing a real time version of the driver. So I am trying to modify
the driver myself. The driver code can be provided if anyone wants a
look (released under GPLv2).
Any assistance would be useful.
The problem of the driver is probably broken locking, which needs to
be fixed for !RT as well.
But if you want to fix it your self and need some assistance it would
be helpful if you could:
1) Run against a recent -rt kernel
2) provide a serial console log of the kernel crash
3) run the kernel with CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y and provide the output
4) upload the source to some place so we can at least have a look at
the code to give you hints.
Thanks,
tglx
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