Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> 
> [Please CC Ingo Molnar on all RT kernel issues]
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Daniel Walker wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:01 -0700, Chuck Harding wrote:
> > > What can be causing the following message to appear in dmesg and
> > > how can I fix it?
> > >
> > > BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: kapmd/0x00000000/46
> > > caller is schedule_timeout+0x51/0x9e
> > >   [<c02b3bc9>] schedule+0x96/0xf6 (8)
> > >   [<c02b43f7>] schedule_timeout+0x51/0x9e (28)
> > >   [<c01222ed>] process_timeout+0x0/0x5 (32)
> > >   [<c0112063>] apm_mainloop+0x7a/0x96 (24)
> > >   [<c0115e45>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x16 (12)
> > >   [<c0115e45>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x16 (32)
> > >   [<c0111485>] apm_driver_version+0x1c/0x38 (16)
> > >   [<c01126f7>] apm+0x0/0x289 (8)
> > >   [<c01127a6>] apm+0xaf/0x289 (8)
> > >   [<c010133c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0xb (20)
> > >   [<c0101341>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb (4)
> > >
> > > This was also present in earlier final-V0.7.50 version I've tried
> > > (since -00) I don't get hangs but that doesn't look like it should
> > > be happening. Thanks.
> >
> > If you have PREEMPT_RT enabled, it looks like interrupts are hard
> > disabled then there is a schedule_timeout() requested. You could try
> > turning off power management and see if you still have problems.
> >
> 
> Although turning off apm works, this is a fix to the symptom and not a
> cure.  Has someone already taken a look at this code? Since
> apm_bios_call_simple calls local_save_flags and afterwards
> raw_lock_irq_restore is then called.  Shouldn't that have been
> raw_local_save_flags?
> 
> That apm_bios_call_simple_asm also looks pretty scary!  I haven't yet
> figured out how APM_FUNC_VERSION becomes a normal function.


I looked at them briefly.. It looks like there is some raw and non-raw
mixed usage .

Daniel

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/