On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <raf...@kernel.org> wrote:
> Sudeep:
>> At-least I observed issue only when I am using hardware broadcast timer.
>> It doesn't hang when I am using hrtimer as broadcast timer in which case
>> one of the cpu will be not enter deeper idle states that lose timer.
>> I will rerun on v4.1-rc1 and post the complete log.
>
> So the bug here is that cpuidle_enter() enables interrupts, so the
> assumption about them being not enabled made by
> tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() is actually not valid.
>
> It looks like we need to acquire the clockevents_lock at least in this
> particular case.  Let me see where to put it and I'll send a patch for
> testing.

Aha that looks very much like it. Put me on the patch and I'll
take it for a spin.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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