linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tick/broadcast: Remove redundant code in tick_check_new

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Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:54:34 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>
cc:     mingo@...nel.org, fweisbec@...il.com,
        Srinivas REDDY Eeda <srinivas.eeda@...cle.com>,
        Joe Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tick/broadcast: Remove redundant code in
 tick_check_new_device()

On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:

> There is no way a timer used as broadcast clockevent device is also used as
> percpu tick clockevent device currently.

Correct.

> It's better to put related code in tick_install_broadcast_device(), but I feel
> it's harmless to give it back to the clockevents layer. Pls correct me if I'm
> wrong.

You already established, that it _cannot_ be the broadcast device and the
per cpu device at the same time. So that condition can never be true. What
do you want to put into tick_install_broadcast_device()? This second
paragraph doesn't make sense, unless I'm missing something.

Thanks,

	tglx