Possible regression due to "tick: broadcast: Prevent livelock from event handler"

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Simon,

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> I have observed what appears to be a regression while testing next-20150702
> which seems to be caused by 2951d5c031a3 ("tick: broadcast: Prevent
> livelock from event handler").
>
> The problem manifests on the emev2/kzm9d board as per the boot log below.
>
> The problem manifests when booting using the shmobile_defconfig,
> which uses multiplatform and enables all devices using DT.
>
> The problem does not appear to always manifest but anecdotally it
> seems to manifest more often of late (yes, I know that is vague).

> hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
>
> The boot hangs here.
> The next line should be:
>
> smsc911x 20000000.ethernet eth0: SMSC911x/921x identified at 0xc8880000, IRQ: 33

As you can reproduce it, can you please try enabling lockdep debugging?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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