On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 09:38 +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote: > On 02/17/2015 07:28 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 09:44 +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote: > >> These duties include do_timer to update jiffies and broadcast wakeups on > >> those > >> platforms which do not have an external device to handle wakeup of cpus > >> from deep > >> idle states. The handover of these duties is not robust against a cpu > >> offline > >> operation today. > > > > Hi Preeti, > > > > This bug is still causing breakage for people on Power8 machines. > > > > Are we just waiting for Thomas to take the patch? > > Hi mpe, > > Thomas has included the patch for fixing this issue in a recent patchset > that he posted for cleaning up tick/clockevents related code.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/16/213. I think it will go into this > merge-window. There are a couple of issues there, once that is fixed I > will remind him to mark it for stable. Ah thanks. I missed it when searching LKML because it was posted by Peter. cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
