Re: [PATCH 32/35] clockevents: Fix cpu down race for hrtimer based broadcasting

[Preeti U Murthy]

On 02/16/2015 05:45 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

>> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int __ref _cpu_down(unsigned int
>> 	__cpu_die(cpu);
>>
>> 	/* CPU is completely dead: tell everyone.  Too late to complain. */
>>-	tick_cleanup_dead_cpu(cpu);
>>+	tick_takeover(cpu);

Why is tick_handover() called after __cpu_die()? And the function tick_takeover()
is not introduced until the next patch. tick_broadcast_takeover_bc() is the
function used instead in this patch. 

Regards
Preeti U Murthy

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