From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: sudeep.holla@arm.com (Sudeep Holla)
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 15:45:41 +0100
Subject: Possible regression due to "tick: broadcast: Prevent livelock
 from event handler"
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On 03/07/15 15:37, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>
>> So this is a single core machine and uses the em_sti timer w/o the
>> broadcast nonsense. In Simons case it looks like em_sti is used as
>> broadcast device.
>
> We use the same board. Just my kernel has SMP=n.
>

If it's UP build, then GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST is disabled. You
may be hitting the issue I reported[1] and is still under discussion.

Regards,
Sudeep

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/25/271