Re: [PATCH 18/38] tick-common: don't set mode to CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED in tick_shutdown()

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 04/14/14 09:23, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> tick_shutdown() calls clockevents_exchange_device() which already sets mode to
> CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED 

Yes it does.

> and so tick_shutdown() doesn't need to do it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> ---
>  kernel/time/tick-common.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
> index bb9a218..3954f4d 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
> @@ -334,7 +334,6 @@ void tick_shutdown(unsigned int *cpup)
>  		 * Prevent that the clock events layer tries to call
>  		 * the set mode function!
>  		 */
> -		dev->mode = CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED;

But see the comment above this assignment. The point is to avoid calling
the ->set_mode function.

>  		clockevents_exchange_device(dev, NULL);
>  		dev->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop;
>  		td->evtdev = NULL;

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