Re: Experiencing freezes with kernel 4.16.3 on a desktop with E5500 CPU (bisect included)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 05:58:01PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Thomas, we could not find the de-rate stuff, but the above can be
> simplified; what happens is:
> 
> 	cs->flags |= UNSTABLE;
> 	schedule_work(&watchdog_work)
> 	  kthread_run(clocksource_watchdog_kthread)

Also, Thomas, do you remember why we spawn a short running kthread from
a work ? Can't we simply run the whole thing from the worker thread?

> 	    __clocksource_watchdog_kthread()
> 	      if (cs->flags & UNSTABLE)
> 	        __clocksource_change_rating()
> 	   clocksource_select()
>