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

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Fri Jul 3 10:02:22 PDT 2015


Hi Wolfram,

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> wrote:
>> So this is a single core machine and uses the em_sti timer w/o the
>> broadcast nonsense. In Simons case it looks like em_sti is used as
>> broadcast device.
>
> We use the same board. Just my kernel has SMP=n.

Unlike our other multi-core A9 SoCs, emev2.dtsi doesn't have a node
for the arm,cortex-a9-twd-timer?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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