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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:11:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> 2009/10/6 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>:
> > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> >> > But I was wondering if you missed this one:
> >> > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/50044/
> >>
> >> Yup, slipped through. Queued for the next release.
> >
> > Correction. I dropped the patch as it is just a sloppy work around.
> > Why creating the thread in the first place ? Real fix below.
> 
> Well, I noticed a few minutes ago that the sirq-hrtimer is
> periodically being scheduled (every 50msec here)
> It does not do much, but it still it does something... (no idea what though)

Yeah, noticed as well. It's due to the deferred handling of signal
based timers.
 
> So, is it really right to prevent it from starting up?

Nope. We just name it unconditionally :)

Thanks,

	tglx