Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 23:29:32 +0100 (CET) > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > > When we allow multiple readers, this will be allowed. But even in > > > > mainline, if a writer were to come in and block between those two > > > > down_read_trylocks(), the seco

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 23:29:32 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > When we allow multiple readers, this will be allowed. But even in > > > mainline, if a writer were to come in and block between those two > > > down_read_trylocks(), the second trylock would fail. > > > > > > PREEMPT_RT just ha

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:50:41 +0100 > > Juerg Haefliger wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Mike Galbraith > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 17:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 10:00 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:43:24 +0100 > > Juerg Haefliger wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the explanation. So is this considered a temporary failure > > > until multiple readers are allowed or does c

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:50:41 +0100 > Juerg Haefliger wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Mike Galbraith > > wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 17:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > Dear RT Folks, > > > > > > > > I'm pleased to announ

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 10:00 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:43:24 +0100 > Juerg Haefliger wrote: > > > Thanks for the explanation. So is this considered a temporary failure > > until multiple readers are allowed or does cpufreq need fixing or > > something else? Just trying

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Harry van Haaren
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:50:41 +0100 Juerg Haefliger wrote: > The cpufreq code does nested down_read_trylocks and only the first one > succeeds: >drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: >store > down_read_trylock(cpufreq_rwsem) <- succeeds > store_scaling_governor >cpufreq_get_policy > cpufreq_cpu_ge

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:43:24 +0100 Juerg Haefliger wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. So is this considered a temporary failure > until multiple readers are allowed or does cpufreq need fixing or > something else? Just trying to figure out what to do next. Good question. Unfortunately I don't k

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Juerg Haefliger
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:50:41 +0100 > Juerg Haefliger wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Mike Galbraith >> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 17:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> > > Dear RT Folks, >> > > >> > > I'm pleased to a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:50:41 +0100 Juerg Haefliger wrote: > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Mike Galbraith > wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 17:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > Dear RT Folks, > > > > > > I'm pleased to announce the 3.14.23-rt20 stable release. > > > > > > This is the fi

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-05 Thread Juerg Haefliger
Resending to the list due to mailer/html issues. On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 17:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Dear RT Folks, > > > > I'm pleased to announce the 3.14.23-rt20 stable release. > > > > This is the first 3.14-rt release in the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-11-02 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 17:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Dear RT Folks, > > I'm pleased to announce the 3.14.23-rt20 stable release. > > This is the first 3.14-rt release in the stable-rt series. Normally I > wait till the next development release is out before I pull in a new > one. That is, I

[ANNOUNCE] 3.14.23-rt20

2014-10-31 Thread Steven Rostedt
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.14.23-rt20 stable release. This is the first 3.14-rt release in the stable-rt series. Normally I wait till the next development release is out before I pull in a new one. That is, I would pull in 3.14-rt when 3.16-rt or later was released. But because