From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>,
arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.4.1 regression from 4.1.x: Soekris net5501 crash in IRQ after mfgpt timer initialization
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:07:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t8vccyq.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1602021650010.25254@nanos> (Thomas Gleixner's message of "Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:51:38 +0100 (CET)")
On 2 Feb 2016, Thomas Gleixner verbalised:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Nix wrote:
>> The fairly trivial code motion below also seems to work, and may be more
>> like an actual fix, though I'm a bit horrified that it's this simple. I
>> may well have moved too much and unknowingly violated some invariant.
>
> I was lazy and did not do this, because it wreckages the error pathes. So I
> went for the workaround in the hope that the authors of that stuff will take
> care :)
Oh true.
As far as I can tell, getting this right requires a function that
reverses the effect of clockevents_config_and_register(), which does not
appear to exist yet :( everything else appears more or less
reversible...
--
NULL && (void)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-02 14:21 4.4.1 regression from 4.1.x: Soekris net5501 crash in IRQ after mfgpt timer initialization Nix
2016-02-02 14:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-02 15:03 ` Nix
2016-02-02 15:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-02 16:07 ` Nix [this message]
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