Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc5-V0.7.47-09

i have released the -V0.7.47-09 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place:

http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/

Changes:

- merge to -rc5

- small fixes

to build a -V0.7.47-09 tree, the following patches have to be applied:

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.12-rc5.bz2
http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc5-V0.7.47-09

Ingo

Building on x86_64 gets me this:

arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c: In function `nmi_watchdog_tick':
arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c:497: error: `cpu' undeclared (first use in this function)

I'm guessing the following is what you had intended:

Index: arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c
===================================================================
--- cb5507f7a63eaba785afcead3bc5cf7454a8f98d/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c (mode:100644)
+++ uncommitted/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c (mode:100644)
@@ -492,6 +492,7 @@

 {
        int sum;
        int touched = 0;

+ int cpu = safe_smp_processor_id();

        sum = read_pda(apic_timer_irqs);
        if (nmi_show_regs[cpu]) {

Will Dyson