Re: [PATCH v8 clocksource 2/5] clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sat Apr 17 2021 - 19:40:46 EST


On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 01:15:26AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17 2021 at 15:54, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 02:24:23PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> I so wish we could just delete all of this horror instead of making it
> >> more horrible.
> >
> > Revisit deleting it in five years if there are no issues, whatever
> > "issue" might mean in this context? Five years should give time for
> > this to propagate to the enterprise distros.
>
> That does not help with the fact that the broken hardware will still be
> around in 5 years from now. Which is what prevents me from deleting the
> whole watchdog muck ...

Ouch! Sigh...

Thanx, Paul