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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908172325380.2782@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:27:50 +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

Suresh,

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Suresh Siddha wrote:

> --- tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> +++ tip/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> @@ -508,17 +508,10 @@ static void c1e_idle(void)
>  
>  		if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, c1e_mask)) {
>  			cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, c1e_mask);
> -			/*
> -			 * Force broadcast so ACPI can not interfere. Needs
> -			 * to run with interrupts enabled as it uses
> -			 * smp_function_call.
> -			 */

Please keep the first sentence of the comment intact. Everything else
looks fine.

Thanks,

	tglx

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