linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tick: check if broadcast device could really be stopped

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Date:   Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:34:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Benjamin GAIGNARD <benjamin.gaignard@...com>
cc:     "fweisbec@...il.com" <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        "mingo@...nel.org" <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "marc.zyngier@....com" <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        "daniel.lezcano@...aro.org" <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com" 
        <linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tick: check if broadcast device could really be
 stopped

On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Benjamin GAIGNARD wrote:
> On 10/14/19 4:28 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Unless you have a solution which works under all circumstances (and the
> > current patch definitely does not) then you have to deal with the
> > requirement of the broadcast timer (either physical or software based).
> 
> If I follow you I need, for my system, a software based broadcast timer 
> (tick-broadcast-hrtimer ?).

Yes, if you don't have a physical one.
 
> If that is correct I 'just' need to add a call to
> tick_setup_hrtimer_broadcast() in arch/arm/kernel/time.c

Correct.

Thanks,

	tglx