Re: [patch] clockevents_notify() need to be called with irq'senabled

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Aug 14 2009 - 16:01:56 EST


On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Suresh Siddha wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 01:28 -0700, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> >
> > > We didn't go that route because of the smp_call_function() in the cpu
> > > hotplug code. So we can't disable interrupts in that path.
> >
> > Hmm, that's the tick_broadcast_on_off() stuff, right ?
>
> Yes Thomas.

What would it take to move the smp_call_function into the calling code ?

Thanks,

tglx


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