Hi, hunting another problem with AUART acting weirdly I got BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP on CPU#0, ksoftirqd/0/3 lock: boot_tvec_bases+0x0/0x10a0, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: ksoftirqd/0/3, .owner_cpu: 0 CPU: 0 PID: 3 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 3.12.15-rt25-00371-gfec62f5-dirty #26 [<c00149ec>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf4) from [<c0012ab0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [<c0012ab0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c01a4b80>] (do_raw_spin_trylock+0x4c/0x58) [<c01a4b80>] (do_raw_spin_trylock+0x4c/0x58) from [<c02ca0b4>] (_raw_spin_trylock+0x20/0x98) [<c02ca0b4>] (_raw_spin_trylock+0x20/0x98) from [<c02c9654>] (rt_spin_trylock+0x14/0xd0) [<c02c9654>] (rt_spin_trylock+0x14/0xd0) from [<c00285cc>] (run_local_timers+0x24/0x78) [<c00285cc>] (run_local_timers+0x24/0x78) from [<c0028654>] (update_process_times+0x34/0x68) [<c0028654>] (update_process_times+0x34/0x68) from [<c005f0ac>] (tick_sched_timer+0x58/0x22c) [<c005f0ac>] (tick_sched_timer+0x58/0x22c) from [<c003f2f8>] (__run_hrtimer+0x7c/0x2a8) [<c003f2f8>] (__run_hrtimer+0x7c/0x2a8) from [<c003f684>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x30c) [<c003f684>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x30c) from [<c0230a84>] (mxs_timer_interrupt+0x20/0x2c) [<c0230a84>] (mxs_timer_interrupt+0x20/0x2c) from [<c0051d1c>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x80/0x2f8) [<c0051d1c>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x80/0x2f8) from [<c0051fd0>] (handle_irq_event+0x3c/0x5c) [<c0051fd0>] (handle_irq_event+0x3c/0x5c) from [<c0054778>] (handle_level_irq+0x8c/0x118) [<c0054778>] (handle_level_irq+0x8c/0x118) from [<c0051c8c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x30) [<c0051c8c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x30) from [<c001009c>] (handle_IRQ+0x30/0x84) [<c001009c>] (handle_IRQ+0x30/0x84) from [<c0013324>] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x88) [<c0013324>] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x88) from [<c006a664>] (__try_to_take_rt_mutex+0x4/0x144) [<c006a664>] (__try_to_take_rt_mutex+0x4/0x144) from [<00000000>] ( (null)) Linux nxt 3.12.15-rt25-00371-gfec62f5-dirty #26 PREEMPT RT Mon Apr 14 20:40:56 CEST 2014 armv5tejl GNU/Linux This is on a Freescale i.MX28, 3.12.15-rt25 with patches that do not touch anything related. On a side note: is it possible that the newer ARM kernels have some requirements regarding the compiler (I am using gcc 4.4.5)? I don't understand what I am seeing in the AUART problem and it can be well something regarding the optimization. However, I had no problems running 3.4 built using the same compiler. Thanks -- Stano -- 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