Re: task isolation discussion at Linux Plumbers

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Nov 07 2016 - 14:18:12 EST


On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 19:16 +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 02:12:13PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 19:36 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > == Missing oneshot_stopped callbacks ==
> > > > >
> > > > > I raised the issue that various clock_event_device sources
> > > > > don't
> > > > > always support oneshot_stopped, which can cause an additional
> > > > > final interrupt to occur after the timer infrastructure
> > > > > believes
> > > > > the
> > > > > interrupt has been stopped.ÂÂI have patches to fix this for
> > > > > tile
> > > > > and
> > > > > arm64 in my patch series; Thomas volunteered to look at
> > > > > adding
> > > > > equivalent support for x86.
> > > >
> > > > Right.
> > >
> > > Untested patch below should fix that.
> > > Â
> >
> > That whitespace cleanup looks awesome, but I am not
> > optimistic about its chances to bring about functional
> > change.
> >
> > What am I overlooking?
>
> It hooks up .set_state_oneshot_stopped?

Gah, indeed. Never mind :)

--
All Rights Reversed.

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part