Hi

I have a questión...

Demmel, have you a Radeon graphics card?



2017-01-17 18:03 GMT+01:00 Demmel Nikolaus (BOSP/PAR)
<nikolaus.dem...@de.bosch.com>:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the datapoint! If debugging doesn't lead to any result, I will try 
> with your version to see if that fixes it for us.
>
> I should also try our version with your patch to fix the compilation instead 
> of the one we are using currently. Maybe that just happens to fix the issue.
>
> Thanks for offering to share the kernel. However, we also have a bunch of 
> (hopefully) unrelated changes we need on our system, so its probably better 
> if we build it ourselves.
>
> Don't worry about your English.
>
> Best,
> Nikolaus
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Vidal [mailto:danielvidalchor...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Montag, 16. Januar 2017 20:16
> To: Demmel Nikolaus (BOSP/PAR) <nikolaus.dem...@de.bosch.com>
> Cc: aufs-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: AUFS and PREEMPT_RT boot issue
>
> Hi
>
> Now, i continue appliyng my patch to compile KERNEL+RT+AUFS.
>
> I was try to use the rt_mutex_set_owner() wihtout success. I do not
> remember what the problem was.
>
> Now i'm running 4.4.38-rt49 Kernel wiht RT and AUFS
>
> Linux x64-v3 4.4.38-rt49 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Mon Dec 19 10:28:46 CET
> 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I use the kernel to run a DEBIAN based live system.
>
> If you want test my kernel i can share-it on google drive.
>
> Sorry for my english.
>
>
> 2017-01-16 16:57 GMT+01:00 Demmel Nikolaus (BOSP/PAR)
> <nikolaus.dem...@de.bosch.com>:
>> Hi J. R. Okajima,
>>
>> thank you for your prompt response.
>>
>> I'm assuming from your response that in general you expect AUFS to work with 
>> PREEMPT_RT, or is this not the case?
>>
>> "Demmel Nikolaus (BOSP/PAR)":
>>> > we are using AUFS for our root filesystem with an tmpfs overlay and 
>>> > recentl=
>>> > y wanted to switch to a kernel with PREEMPT_RT patch. Unfortunately, it 
>>> > see=
>>> > ms that mounting aufs seems to hang about 40% of the time during boot 
>>> > (ther=
>>> > e is no specific kernel or log message). When it comes up, it seems to 
>>> > work=
>>> >  correctly.
>>
>>> Do you mean that mounting aufs took very long time and your system runs
>>> flawlessly after that?
>>> Interesting...
>>
>>> My first suggestion to see what is going on is "strace -T -f mount -t aufs 
>>> ..."
>>> which will give us a hint.
>>
>>> Sometimes people sets aufs FHSM feature incorrectly. That
>>> setting/configuration should match in kernel-space and user-space. If it
>>> doesn't match, it will take a long time in mounting aufs unexpectedly.
>>> When FHSM is enabled both in kernel and user-space, then it will take a
>>> long time too. But it is an expected behaviour.
>>
>> What I actually mean is that in about 40% of the time when booting into a 
>> kernel with the RT patch, the boot hangs at
>>
>>         mount -t aufs -o "dirs=/rw=rw:/ro=ro" aufs $ROOT_MOUNT
>>
>> in our init script and does not appear to return at all. The other 60% it 
>> works as expected without delay.
>>
>> Then exact same configuration just without PREEMPT_RT patch appears to work 
>> 100% of the time.
>>
>> Does your answer still apply? Should we try the strace?
>>
>>> > In order to get AUFS to compile, we needed to apply the following 
>>> > additiona=
>>> > l patch: 
>>> > https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/pull/108/commits/ad740435f28e=
>>> > 3ffb5d73a419086b0b6fd3bc7240
>>
>>> Hmm, this patch reminds me a post from Daniel Vidal in May 2013 (the
>>> patch looks different from what I suggested, though). Refer to
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/aufs-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04210.html
>>> and its thread.
>>
>> Hm... interesting. To me (being unfamiliar with the innards of both 
>> PREEMPT_RT and AUFS) this
>> looks like potential for a locking issue. The patch / discussion you linked 
>> seems to suggest that
>> the owner should be set assigned to lock.owner, which is not done in the 
>> patch we are using. Mind that
>> the patch I linked is also just something I stumbled across while googling 
>> the initial compile error.
>> In particular the commit message doesn't sound too confident that the change 
>> is actually the correct
>> fix and not just a way to make it compile.
>>
>> Do you suggest that we should try to change it to the patch you linked?
>>
>>> Next time when you post, tell me the version of patches you are using
>>> and the URL where I can get all of thme.
>>
>> Sorry, here are the versions, I hope this helps (I'm copying this from a 
>> yocto build config and I'm not sure in what format it would be most useful 
>> for you. I'm not even sure what would be the best tool to use to get from 
>> the list of repos with kernel source and patches a compiled kernel without 
>> using yocto).
>>
>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.1.30.tar.xz
>> http://git.linuxfoundation.org/?p=ltsi-kernel.git;a=commit;h=079621627b2d96cf0d85a0413ce5670056a70751w
>> https://github.com/sfjro/aufs4-standalone.git
>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.1/older/patches-4.1.30-rt34.tar.xz
>>
>> Best,
>> Nikolaus
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
>> engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot

Reply via email to