On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 07:56:17PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > From: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > > > > Replace the clockevents_notify() call with an explicit function call. > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > > This patch makes my test system hang solid after letting it sit idle for > 5 to 15 minutes. Reverting it and this issue goes away. > > The explicit function call is not an equivalent replacement. In > clockevents_notify() the clockevents_lock is held across the call to > tick_broadcast_enter() or tick_broadcast_exit(). This patch drops the > locking.
Yeah, the Changelog introducing the explicit call states as much. I'll have to go figure out why that matters here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
