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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:33:45 +0530 From: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org, rjw@...ysocki.net, tglx@...utronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 32/35] clockevents: Fix cpu down race for hrtimer based broadcasting On 02/16/2015 05:45 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> >> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int __ref _cpu_down(unsigned int >> __cpu_die(cpu); >> >> /* CPU is completely dead: tell everyone. Too late to complain. */ >>- tick_cleanup_dead_cpu(cpu); >>+ tick_takeover(cpu); Why is tick_handover() called after __cpu_die()? And the function tick_takeover() is not introduced until the next patch. tick_broadcast_takeover_bc() is the function used instead in this patch. Regards Preeti U Murthy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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