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Commit fbfa9260 authored by Sudeep Holla's avatar Sudeep Holla Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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clockevents: Warn if cpu_all_mask is used as cpumask



Using cpu_all_mask in clockevents cpumask may result in issues while
comparing multiple clockevent devices to choose the preferred one.

On one of the platforms with 2 system (i.e. non per-CPU) timers with
different ratings, having cpu_all_mask for one of the device resulted in a
boot hang due to a endless loop in clockevents_notify_released() as both
were clocksources were selected as preferred.

In order to prevent such issues in the future, warn if any clockevent
driver sets cpu_all_mask as it's cpumask and just override it to use
cpu_possible_mask. All the existing occurrences of cpu_all_mask are already
replaced with cpu_possible_mask.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531308264-24220-3-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com
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