Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.18.7-rt2

[Gustavo Bittencourt <gbitten@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Mike Galbraith
<umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 13:19 -0300, Gustavo Bittencourt wrote:

>>
>> The deadlock returned after I applied this patch in v3.18.7-rt2. Here is my log:
>
>
> Hrmph.  I definitely want your patch to die ;-)  It adds a whole new
> dimension to ww_mutex that only now exists in -rt.  That's not good.

No problem.

> My
> patchlet may not be perfect either, but it lets ww_mutex do that return
> EALREADY business it's supposed to, vs going straight to while(1).  We
> can't have it both ways, so I suppose I'll fire up my old Q6600 box
> (that doesn't have annoying GTX980 that my userspace can't deal with DRM
> wise), and see if I can chase the nouveau thing down.  I'm not all that
> enthusiastic though, as there are or at least were other issues with
> nouveau.  Sebastian reported some completely _missing_ locking IIRC,
> that led to his box exploding.

Is there anyway that I could help? I think I can write a code to
reproduce the deadlock without the nouveau driver.