Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:41:01 +0100 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/3] tick/sched: Remove bogus boot "safety" check |
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 10:12:55PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > can_stop_idle_tick() checks whether the do_timer() duty has been taken over > by a CPU on boot. That's silly because the boot CPU always takes over with > the initial clockevent device. > > But even if no CPU would have installed a clockevent and taken over the > duty then the question whether the tick on the current CPU can be stopped > or not is moot. In that case the current CPU would have no clockevent > either, so there would be nothing to keep ticking. > > Remove it. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Thanks!
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