On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Peter LaDow wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > The netfilter code relies only on the implicit semantics of > > local_bh_disable() for serializing wt_write_recseq sections. RT breaks > > that and needs explicit serialization here. > > > > Reported-by: Peter LaDow <petela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > diff --git a/include/linux/locallock.h b/include/linux/locallock.h > > index f1804a3..a5eea5d 100644 > > > diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h b/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h > > index 32cddf7..bed90da2 100644 > > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/core.c b/net/netfilter/core.c > > index 899b71c..5db16ea 100644 > > I'm trying these out right now. We've applied these patches to > 3.0.36-rt58 (rather than pull in the full 3.0.48-rt72 -- too much risk > for us right now to do a full kernel change). I am setting up a Cough. You are missing a boat load of crucial fixes. There is a damned good reason why 3.0.stable got 12 updates and the -rt version 14. Your risk assessment is definitley interesting. 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
