Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC] Getting rid of the NMI latency watchdog

2011-06-22 Thread Philippe Gerum
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 19:16 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > On 05/19/2011 10:29 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:36 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> On 2011-05-19 20:15, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > >>> On 05/19/2011 03:58 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote: > For this reason, I

Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC] Getting rid of the NMI latency watchdog

2011-06-22 Thread Gilles Chanteperdrix
On 05/19/2011 10:29 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:36 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2011-05-19 20:15, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >>> On 05/19/2011 03:58 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote: For this reason, I'm considering issuing a patch for a complete removal of the NMI lat

Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC] Getting rid of the NMI latency watchdog

2011-05-19 Thread Philippe Gerum
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:36 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-05-19 20:15, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > > On 05/19/2011 03:58 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote: > >> For this reason, I'm considering issuing a patch for a complete removal > >> of the NMI latency watchdog code in Xenomai 2.6.x, disabling th

Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC] Getting rid of the NMI latency watchdog

2011-05-19 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-05-19 20:15, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > On 05/19/2011 03:58 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote: >> For this reason, I'm considering issuing a patch for a complete removal >> of the NMI latency watchdog code in Xenomai 2.6.x, disabling the feature >> for 2.6.38 kernels and above in 2.5.x. >> >> Com

Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC] Getting rid of the NMI latency watchdog

2011-05-19 Thread Gilles Chanteperdrix
On 05/19/2011 03:58 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote: > For this reason, I'm considering issuing a patch for a complete removal > of the NMI latency watchdog code in Xenomai 2.6.x, disabling the feature > for 2.6.38 kernels and above in 2.5.x. > > Comments welcome. I am in the same case as you: I no long

[Xenomai-core] [RFC] Getting rid of the NMI latency watchdog

2011-05-19 Thread Philippe Gerum
The NMI latency watchdog is a feature Xenomai supports when proper hardware is available, which triggers a stack backtrace dump, then panics when a real-time timer tick is late by a given amount of time. We used it in the early times to chase pathological latencies, particularly when debugging the