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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] nohz: Hand over timekeeping duty on cpu offlining
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:30:01PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:51:29PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > The default timekeeper (aka CPU 0) is the perfect candidate for this
> > task since it can't be offlined itself.
> 
> Like said previously, yes it can!

I'll rephrase that in the changelog to precise that it's the tick hotplug handler
which prevent it to offline.