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From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] tick/sched: Remove bogus boot "safety" check
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:41:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201211224101.GD595642@lothringen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201206212002.725238293@linutronix.de>

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 10:12:55PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> can_stop_idle_tick() checks whether the do_timer() duty has been taken over
> by a CPU on boot. That's silly because the boot CPU always takes over with
> the initial clockevent device.
> 
> But even if no CPU would have installed a clockevent and taken over the
> duty then the question whether the tick on the current CPU can be stopped
> or not is moot. In that case the current CPU would have no clockevent
> either, so there would be nothing to keep ticking.
> 
> Remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-11 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-06 21:12 [patch 0/3] tick: Annotate and document the intentionaly racy tick_do_timer_cpu Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-06 21:12 ` [patch 1/3] tick: Remove pointless cpu valid check in hotplug code Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 11:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-07 17:44     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-11 22:21   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-12-12  0:16     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-12  1:20       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-12-11 22:31   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-12-16 10:50   ` [tip: timers/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-06 21:12 ` [patch 2/3] tick/sched: Remove bogus boot "safety" check Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-11 22:41   ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2020-12-16 10:50   ` [tip: timers/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-06 21:12 ` [patch 3/3] tick: Annotate tick_do_timer_cpu data races Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 12:09   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-07 17:46     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 18:19       ` Marco Elver
2020-12-07 19:43         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 19:44         ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-07 21:46           ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 22:38             ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-07 22:46               ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 22:55                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-08  8:11           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-08 15:03             ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-16  0:27               ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-16 21:19                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-16 21:23                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-16 21:32                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-17 10:48                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-17 14:59                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-08  8:01         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-07 11:05 ` [patch 0/3] tick: Annotate and document the intentionaly racy tick_do_timer_cpu Marco Elver

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