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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:01:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] clockevents_notify() need to be called with irq's
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Suresh Siddha wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 01:28 -0700, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > 
> > > We didn't go that route because of the smp_call_function() in the cpu
> > > hotplug code. So we can't disable interrupts in that path.
> > 
> > Hmm, that's the tick_broadcast_on_off() stuff, right ?
> 
> Yes Thomas.

What would it take to move the smp_call_function into the calling code ?

Thanks,

	tglx