Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:00:14 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 6/7] clocksource: Rework stale comment |
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AFAICS the hotplug code no longer uses this function.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> --- kernel/time/clocksource.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -173,10 +173,8 @@ static void __clocksource_unstable(struc * clocksource_mark_unstable - mark clocksource unstable via watchdog * @cs: clocksource to be marked unstable * - * This function is called instead of clocksource_change_rating from - * cpu hotplug code to avoid a deadlock between the clocksource mutex - * and the cpu hotplug mutex. It defers the update of the clocksource - * to the watchdog thread. + * This function is called by the x86 TSC code to mark clocksources as unstable; + * it defers demotion and re-selection to a kthread. */ void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) {
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