Re: [tip:timers/urgent] tick: Fix oneshot broadcast setup really

[Santosh Shilimkar]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.Thomas,

On Thursday 19 April 2012 01:59 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Suresh Siddha wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:31 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: tick: Fix the spurious broadcast timer ticks
>>
>> During resume, tick_resume_broadcast() programs the broadcast timer
>> in oneshot mode unconditionally. On the platforms where broadcast timer
>> is not really required, this will generate spurious broadcast timer ticks
>> upon resume. For example, on the always running apic timer platforms with
>> HPET, I see spurious hpet tick once every ~5minutes (which is the 32-bit
>> hpet counter wraparound time).
>>
>> Similar to boot time, during resume make the oneshot mode setting of
>> the broadcast clock event device conditional on the state of active broadcast
>> users. 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Sven, Santosh, can you confirm that this works for you on top of the
> other two patches?
> 
I tried this patch on top of previous changes and it continues
to work. Just to be clear on what I have tested so far, attaching
the two patches.

Regards
Santosh