From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756008AbaCSUcH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:32:07 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:36582 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753818AbaCSUcB (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:32:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:32:09 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Viresh Kumar cc: Peter Zijlstra , Lists linaro-kernel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Weisbecker?= , Tejun Heo , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] timer: Make sure TIMER_FLAG_MASK bits are free in allocated base In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <9144e10d7e854a0aa8a673332adec356d81a923c.1393576981.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 11 March 2014 15:56, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > > > Now, I was looking to migrate away the timers first but I > > obviously shouldn't migrate the pinned timers. One way out to > > identify PINNED timers is to mark them PINNED with the flag bits, > > which you wouldn't allow. Can you give some other idea with which > > I can get this solved. Sigh, I really hoped to find some time to finish the rework, but then you get to debug bugs, solve the problem and are rewarded with a full inbox. Lather, rinse, repeat... Go ahead and make the timer base aligned with more room for some bits to tweak. The new stuff will have a flags field where stuff like pinned is stored. Thanks, tglx