Re: [v3 PATCH 2/4] timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote:
> * Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-03-16 16:40:45]:
> 
> The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked:
> 1)sched_rt_period_timer
> 2)tick_sched_timer
> 3)stack_trace_timer_fn

How did you verify that these are the only timers which need to be
pinned ?

Can we be sure that there is no code which relies on the current
behaviour to keep functionality tied together ? Networking and block
layer comes to mind.

Thanks,

	tglx
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