linux-kernel - Re: [patch] clockevents_notify() need to be called with irq's enabled

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Message-Id: <1250271593.3077.8.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:39:53 -0700
From:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>, "hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] clockevents_notify() need to be called with irq's
 enabled

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 01:28 -0700, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> 
> > We didn't go that route because of the smp_call_function() in the cpu
> > hotplug code. So we can't disable interrupts in that path.
> 
> Hmm, that's the tick_broadcast_on_off() stuff, right ?

Yes Thomas.

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