linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] highres: Do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres mode

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Message-ID: <20070305075205.GA19336@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:52:05 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] highres: Do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to	highres mode


* Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org> wrote:

> >> And an additional request, just to make it explicit that we should 
> >> not have any NO_SOFTIRQ callbacks in the tree; BUG out if we 
> >> encounter such a thing.
> > 
> > please change it to WARN_ON_ONCE()...
> > 
> > 'bug out' might mean: 'dead box'/'no resume'/'no bootup'.
>
> Certainly; note that hrtimers.c has quite a few BUG calls which could 
> render a box dead, though.

yep, bad habbit from the days when the vga console was always there to 
print stuff on.

	Ingo
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