linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clockevents/drivers/cs5535: improve resilience to spurious interrupts

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Date:   Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:04:13 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     David Kozub <zub@...ux.fjfi.cvut.cz>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clockevents/drivers/cs5535: improve resilience to
 spurious interrupts

On 19/10/2017 22:57, David Kozub wrote:
> This solves a BUG on ALIX 2c3 where mfgpt_tick is called before
> clockevents_config_and_register returns. This caused mfgpt_tick to call a
> null function pointer.
> 
> Thanks to Daniel Lezcano and Thomas Gleixner for helping me analyze this
> and suggesting a solution.
> 
> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: David Kozub <zub@...ux.fjfi.cvut.cz>
> ---

Thank for sending this fix.

Can you check if the commit 8f9327cbb is the one introducing the
regression ? So we can add the proper tags and propagate the fix to stable.

Thanks.

 -- Daniel


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