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

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Fri Jul 3 07:54:49 PDT 2015


On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On 03/07/15 15:37, Wolfram Sang 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.
> > 
> 
> If it's UP build, then GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST is disabled. You
> may be hitting the issue I reported[1] and is still under discussion.

Nope. The UP version uses a non affected timer.

Thanks,

	tglx



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