Re: [patch 2/3] tick/sched: Remove bogus boot "safety" check

2020-12-11 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 10:12:55PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > can_stop_idle_tick() checks whether the do_timer() duty has been taken over > by a CPU on boot. That's silly because the boot CPU always takes over with > the initial clockevent device. > > But even if no CPU would have installed a

[patch 2/3] tick/sched: Remove bogus boot "safety" check

2020-12-06 Thread Thomas Gleixner
can_stop_idle_tick() checks whether the do_timer() duty has been taken over by a CPU on boot. That's silly because the boot CPU always takes over with the initial clockevent device. But even if no CPU would have installed a clockevent and taken over the duty then the question whether the tick on t