On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Zoltan Bus<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem on kernel 2.6.26.3. I have a real-time task which
> uses the select system call to poll my audio driver. The sleeping task
> is waken up by wake_up() from an interrupt handler.
> The problem is, that the wake_up() function  sometimes does not wake
> up the task if real-time priority is used.
>
> The try_to_wake_up() returns from the out_running section, because of the 
> check
>
>     if (p->se.on_rq)
>             goto out_running;
>
> There are no other tasks running when the poll function is called.
>
> Is this a known problem? Is it fixed somehow in newer versions?
> Unfortunately I do not have the possibility to change the newest kernel 
> version.

Hm, I am not sure either. Without checking your source code, have you
tried other variation of wake_up such as wake_up_poll() or
wake_up_interruptible_poll()? Seems promising to me.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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