Re: [PATCH 4.4-rt2] fix arm-at91-pit-remove-irq-handler-when-clock-is-unused.patch

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Mon Jan 18 2016 - 20:22:56 EST


On 18/01/2016 at 21:24:28 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote :
> >
> > My understanding is that clockevents_exchange_device() changes the state
> > from detached to shutdown and so at that point the IRQ has never been
> > requested.
>
> I see. So we get shutdown called twice while set_periodic was only
> called once. In that case I would suggest to have internal bookkeeping
> instead of relying on current core's behavior when it is time free the
> irq.
>

Ok, I can do that. What should I base my patch on?

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