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Date:	Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:27:21 +0100
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	poma <pomidorabelisima@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	"Justin M. Forbes" <jforbes@...hat.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	Mailing-List fedora-kernel <kernel@...ts.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c:668
 tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0x17d/0x190()

> > I came with a below patch, which also clear pending mask, but perhaps
> 
> Fun. I came up with the exact same solution independent of you and I
> tested it on real C1E contaminated hardware.
> 
> > oneshot_mask should not be cleared on tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(),
> > or should be cleared only conditionally, or some other solution is
> 
> We can do it unconditionally. It creates consistent state in all
> corner cases.
> 
> There are other solutions to the problem, but that needs a major
> rework of the broadcast code. I so wish that this mess would have
> never been necessary at all ...

Thomas, please post/apply patch, which you think is the most
appropriate.

Thanks
Stanislaw
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