Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.2-rt4 release. rt4 is just an update to 3.6.2. The not announced 3.6.1-rt3 is an intermediate release with a single change. Changes since 3.6.1-rt2: * Remove the softirq noise printk The delta patch against 3.6.1-rt2 is appended below and can be found here http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.6/incr/patch-3.6.1-rt2-rt3.patch.xz The RT patch against 3.6.2 can be found here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.6/patch-3.6.2-rt4.patch.xz The split quilt queue is available at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.6/patches-3.6.2-rt4.tar.xz Enjoy, tglx ----------> Index: linux-stable/kernel/softirq.c =================================================================== --- linux-stable.orig/kernel/softirq.c +++ linux-stable/kernel/softirq.c @@ -468,8 +468,6 @@ static void do_single_softirq(int which, */ static void do_current_softirqs(int need_rcu_bh_qs) { - int retry = 0; - while (current->softirqs_raised) { int i = __ffs(current->softirqs_raised); unsigned int pending, mask = (1U << i); @@ -496,10 +494,6 @@ static void do_current_softirqs(int need } unlock_softirq(i); WARN_ON(current->softirq_nestcnt != 1); - if (++retry == 20) { - printk(KERN_ERR "Crap, %s looping forever in softirq\n", - current->comm); - } } } Index: linux-stable/localversion-rt =================================================================== --- linux-stable.orig/localversion-rt +++ linux-stable/localversion-rt @@ -1 +1 @@ --rt2 +-rt3 -- 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
