Re: [tip: timers/core] Revert "tick/common: Make tick_periodic() check for missing ticks"

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Mar 19 2020 - 16:10:27 EST


On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 06:54:22PM -0000, tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip:
>
> Commit-ID: 52da479a9aee630d2cdf37d05edfe5bcfff3e17f
> Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/52da479a9aee630d2cdf37d05edfe5bcfff3e17f
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:47:06 +01:00
> Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitterDate: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:47:48 +01:00
>
> Revert "tick/common: Make tick_periodic() check for missing ticks"
>
> This reverts commit d441dceb5dce71150f28add80d36d91bbfccba99 due to
> boot failures.
>
> Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/time/tick-common.c | 36 +++---------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

ACK, this fixes an early boot freeze on one of my boxes too.

Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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