Re: [PATCH] timekeeping: drop irq-context clocksource polling

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On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 03:19 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:03:16 -0700 Daniel Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Before this change the timekeeping code would poll the clocksource
> > list every interrupt. This changes that so the clocksource list is
> > only checked when there has been and update, and no longer checks
> > in interrupt context.
> 
> I get a complete lockup on i386 SMP - before the kernel has printed anything.
> 
> I'm suspecting a recursive taking of xtime_lock.

Looks like this path ,

arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c: time_cpufreq_notifier(); <-- takes xtime_lock
			 mark_tsc_unstable();
            		  clocksource_change_rating(&clocksource_tsc, 0);
			   timekeeping_change_clocksource(); <-- takes xtime_lock


I'm not sure why the time_cpufreq_notifier is taking the xtime_lock tho .

Daniel

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