On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:02:26 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > It's still there. Note, that when I pull -rt into stable, I do a > > git quiltimport, which renames the patch set. It's now called: > > > > 0089-slub-delay-ctor-until-the-object-is-requested.patch > > >From the 4.0.8-rt6 announce: > > - The delayed kmem_cache constructor caused problems. Steven Rostedt > reported problems versus the signal handling code and Koehrer > Mathias reported the same. The patch in question has been reverted > and a patch currently sitting in -mm has been added which provides > the same functionality (running the constructor with enabled > interrupts). Patch provided by Thomas Gleixner. > > The stable trees which carry the delay-ctor patches should be updated > to this. > > Reverting the patch at least prevents the BUG. Latencywise the slub patch > > mm-slub-move-slab-initialization-into-irq-enabled-re.patch > > is the one which wants to be ported back. > OK, I hope I did this right. Please go and test the latest 3.18-rc to see if things work better. To build 3.18.18-rt16-rc1 directly, the following patches should be applied: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.18.tar.xz http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.18.18.xz http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.18/patch-3.18.18-rt16-rc1.patch.xz You can also build from 3.18.18-rt15 by applying the incremental patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.18/incr/patch-3.18.18-rt15-rt16-rc1.patch.xz -- Steve -- 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