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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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> Right, in that case I would very much prefer the simpler thing I
> proposed over all this softirq stuff, we can have the tick process the
> callbacks for really broken hardware (perf_events doesn't care since
> without a lapic there's no pmi anyway).

Ying's approach will work I think. 

-Andi

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