Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:22:16 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] move put_task_struct() reaping into a thread [Re: 2.6.18-rt1] |
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* Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> wrote:
> Also, triggering a panic() at the beginning of the rt mutex acquire > was very useful since it made "in_atomic()" violations an explicit > error stopping the machine. Stack traces started to get really crazy > in this preemptive kernel with all sorts of things running unlike the > non-preemptive kernel and it was time consuming to figure out the real > stuff from the noise in the stack trace.
well you should absolutely have serial console if you effectively want to hack the Linux kernel. And in the serial console log you should search for stacktraces top-down, and concentrate on the first one - any subsequent one might be collateral damage of the first one.
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