Re: [patch 2/3] tick/sched: Remove bogus boot "safety" check

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 10:12:55PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> can_stop_idle_tick() checks whether the do_timer() duty has been taken over
> by a CPU on boot. That's silly because the boot CPU always takes over with
> the initial clockevent device.
> 
> But even if no CPU would have installed a clockevent and taken over the
> duty then the question whether the tick on the current CPU can be stopped
> or not is moot. In that case the current CPU would have no clockevent
> either, so there would be nothing to keep ticking.
> 
> Remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!