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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908142159480.1283@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:01:39 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
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, 14 Aug 2009, Suresh Siddha wrote:

> 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.

What would it take to move the smp_call_function into the calling code ?

Thanks,

	tglx


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