From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [tglx@linutronix.de: [PATCH] clockevents: fix bogus next_event reset for oneshot broadcast devices]
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:47:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070928124724.GA8732@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070927221956.GA19990@linux-mips.org>
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:19:56PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:17:04 +0200
> To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] clockevents: fix bogus next_event reset for oneshot
> broadcast devices
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> In periodic broadcast mode the next_event member of the broadcast device
> structure is set to KTIME_MAX in the interrupt handler. This is wrong,
> as we calculate the next periodic interrupt with this variable.
>
> Remove it.
>
> Noticed by Ralf. MIPS is the first user of this mode, it does not affect
> existing users.
Which is a different from what I was using, so that throws somewhat of a
wrench into some of the MIPS dyntick mechanics. But it doesn't change
the fact that this fix is correct.
Ralf
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2007-09-27 22:19 [tglx@linutronix.de: [PATCH] clockevents: fix bogus next_event reset for oneshot broadcast devices] Ralf Baechle
2007-09-28 12:47 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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