Hi Prasad, Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on tip/timers/core] [also build test ERROR on tip/auto-latest tip/timers/nohz v5.7-rc3 next-20200428] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Prasad-Sodagudi/timer-make-deferrable-cpu-unbound-timers-really-not-bound-to-a-cpu/20200429-060558 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git 4479730e9263befbb9ce9563a09563db2acb8f7c config: i386-tinyconfig (attached as .config) compiler: gcc-7 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-6ubuntu2) 7.5.0 reproduce: # save the attached .config to linux build tree make ARCH=i386 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kbuild test robot All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): kernel/time/timer.c: In function 'run_timer_softirq': >> kernel/time/timer.c:1804:18: error: 'timer_base_deferrable' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'timer_base_lock_expiry'? __run_timers(&timer_base_deferrable); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timer_base_lock_expiry kernel/time/timer.c:1804:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in kernel/time/timer.c: In function 'init_timer_deferrable_global': kernel/time/timer.c:2046:2: error: 'timer_base_deferrable' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'timer_base_lock_expiry'? timer_base_deferrable.cpu = nr_cpu_ids; ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timer_base_lock_expiry vim +1804 kernel/time/timer.c 1791 1792 /* 1793 * This function runs timers and the timer-tq in bottom half context. 1794 */ 1795 static __latent_entropy void run_timer_softirq(struct softirq_action *h) 1796 { 1797 struct timer_base *base = this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_STD]); 1798 1799 __run_timers(base); 1800 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)) { 1801 __run_timers(this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_DEF])); 1802 if (tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE || 1803 tick_do_timer_cpu == smp_processor_id()) > 1804 __run_timers(&timer_base_deferrable); 1805 } 1806 } 1807 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org