Re: [PATCH 1/3] clocksource: drivers: set clockevent device cpumask to cpu_possible_mask

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Wed Jul 11 2018 - 09:42:43 EST


Hi Daniel,

On 11/07/18 12:36, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 11/07/2018 13:24, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> Currently, quite a few clockevent devices have cpumask set to
>> cpu_all_mask which should be fine. However, cpu_possible_mask is more
>> accurate and if there are any other clockevent devices in the system
>> which have cpumask set to cpu_possible_mask, then having cpu_all_mask
>> may result in issues (mostly boot hang with forever loops in
>> clockevents_notify_released).
>>
>> So, lets replace all the clockevent device cpu_all_mask to
>> cpu_possible_mask in order to prevent above mentioned possible issue.
>>
>> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> Applied, thanks for the fix.
>

Thomas was planning to take this, see [1]
--
Regards,
Sudeep

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.1807102220320.1588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/