[PATCH] Don't disable irqs in set_next_event and set_mode callbacks

Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-21T09:04:00Z

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:39:22AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> These functions are called with irqs already off.
>
> at91rm2000 had a WARN_ON_ONCE if irqs were enabled since Nov 2008 with
> noone reporting having hit it.

It might be useful to document these clockevent interfaces. There's
at least a few ARM clockevent implementations which don't set the
periodic interval when set_next_event() is called - probably because
it wasn't realised that it was required.