On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 21:44 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:

 suggestion I updated the instrumentation to display the
local_save_flags and irqs_disabled_flags:

Jul 22 23:36:58 igoort1 kernel: local flags: 0, irqs disabled: 1
Jul 22 23:36:58 igoort1 kernel: before H_CEDE current->stack: c00000010e9e3ce0, pcnt: 1
Jul 22 23:36:58 igoort1 kernel: after H_CEDE current->stack: c00000010e9e3ce0, pcnt: 1

I'm not sure if I'm reading that right, but I believe interrupts are
intended to be disabled here. If accomplished via the
spin_lock_irqsave() this would behave differently on RT. However, this
path disables the interrupts handled by xics, all but the IPIs anyway.
On RT I disabled the decrementer as well.

Is it possible for RT to be receiving other interrupts here?

Also you may want to call hard_irq_disable() to -really- disable
interrupts ... since we do lazy-disable on powerpc

Cheers,
Ben.