Re: Backport hr-tick fix into .25/.26

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 02:31 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Justin Madru <jdm64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This commit introduced the bug.
> > > > commit 8f4d37ec073c17e2d4aa8851df5837d798606d6f
> > > > sched: high-res preemption tick
> > > 
> > > > And this one fixed it
> > > >
> > > > commit 31656519e132f6612584815f128c83976a9aaaef
> > > > sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
> > > 
> > > hm, the backport of 31656519 is a bit intrusive.
> > > 
> > > find below is an (untested!) version of it - i havent even build-tested 
> > > it. Does it work for you? But this is Greg's call really.
> > > 
> > 
> > It largely depends on all the new IPI stuff that went into 27 as well, 
> > so I'd be surprised if its easily backportable..
> 
> ah, i see. How about a simple patch then that disables hrtick [given 
> that it's now fixed .27 but the fix is too intrusive to backport]? Would 
> that be too risky for -stable?

That's just flipping sched_feat(HRTICK) to 0 by default.

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