From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763458AbZCQNJd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:09:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753997AbZCQNJY (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:09:24 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:56145 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752683AbZCQNJX (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:09:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:07:44 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Arun R Bharadwaj cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, ego@in.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, andi@firstfloor.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 2/4] timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers In-Reply-To: <20090316111337.GC4686@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20090316111045.GA4686@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090316111337.GC4686@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote: > * Arun R Bharadwaj [2009-03-16 16:40:45]: > > The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked: > 1)sched_rt_period_timer > 2)tick_sched_timer > 3)stack_trace_timer_fn How did you verify that these are the only timers which need to be pinned ? Can we be sure that there is no code which relies on the current behaviour to keep functionality tied together ? Networking and block layer comes to mind. Thanks, tglx