Re: [nohz] 2a16fc93d2c: kernel lockup on idle injection

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Dec 15 2014 - 23:18:57 EST


On 16 December 2014 at 02:54, Pan, Jacob jun <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Looks good to me. You can add my Reviewed-by to the above patch.

Thanks.

> I have tested this fix and confirm powerclamp is working properly now.

Oh, nice.

> However, we also have a planned patch for consolidated idle loop. With this patch it causes some erratic behavior in idle injection.
> I canât seem to synchronize/align idle time around jiffies with this patch + fix.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/56

And all works fine without this patch ?
2a16fc93d2c9 ("nohz: Avoid tick's double reprogramming in highres mode")

I really don't know what stuff out of the two patches I posted (The above one
and the fix I posted yesterday), will possible make the synchronization bad ..

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