Re: [PATCH] highres: Do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres mode

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 05 2007 - 03:00:59 EST



* Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> And an additional request, just to make it explicit that we should
> >> not have any NO_SOFTIRQ callbacks in the tree; BUG out if we
> >> encounter such a thing.
> >
> > please change it to WARN_ON_ONCE()...
> >
> > 'bug out' might mean: 'dead box'/'no resume'/'no bootup'.
>
> Certainly; note that hrtimers.c has quite a few BUG calls which could
> render a box dead, though.

yep, bad habbit from the days when the vga console was always there to
print stuff on.

Ingo
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