Re: [PATCH] nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus

[Ingo Molnar]

* Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> After a cpu was taken down during cpu hotplug (read: disabled for interrupts)
> it still might have pending softirqs. However take_cpu_down makes sure
> that the idle task will run next instead of ksoftirqd on the taken down cpu.
> The idle task will call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick which might warn about
> pending softirqs just before the cpu kills itself completely.
> However the pending softirqs on the dead cpu aren't a problem because they
> will be moved to an online cpu during CPU_DEAD handling.
> 
> So make sure we warn only for online cpus.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/time/tick-sched.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

applied to tip/timers/nohz, thanks Heiko!

	Ingo
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