linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/23] GTOD: persistent clock support, i386

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Message-Id: <1159918200.1386.234.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:30:00 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jim Gettys <jg@...top.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/23] GTOD: persistent clock support, i386

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 15:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > -	write_seqlock_irqsave(&xtime_lock, flags);
> > -	jiffies_64 += sleep_length;
> > -	write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
> >  	touch_softlockup_watchdog();
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> 
> In this version of the patch, you no longer remove the
> touch_softlockup_watchdog() call from timer_resume().
> 
> But clockevents-drivers-for-i386.patch deletes timer_resume()
> altogether.
> 
> Hence we might need to put that re-added touch_softlockup_watchdog() call
> into somewhere else now.

clockevents has is it in the resume path.

static void clockevents_resume_local_events(void *arg)
{
....
        touch_softlockup_watchdog();
}

	tglx


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