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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clocksource:fix kernel panic due missing event_handler in cs5535
HI

On Mon, 30 May 2016, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Mon, 30 May 2016, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote:
>
> > Missing event_handler in mfgpt_tick() caused a kernel panic.
>
> So the real problem is that the interrupt in the device is enabled _BEFORE_
> the clock event device is registered.
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c b/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c
> > index 9a7e37c..6f186cf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c
> > @@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ static irqreturn_t mfgpt_tick(int irq, void *dev_id)
> > cs5535_mfgpt_write(cs5535_event_clock, MFGPT_REG_SETUP,
> > MFGPT_SETUP_CNTEN | MFGPT_SETUP_CMP2);
> >
> > - cs5535_clockevent.event_handler(&cs5535_clockevent);
> > + if (cs5535_clockevent.event_handler)
> > + cs5535_clockevent.event_handler(&cs5535_clockevent);
> > +
>
> So what about fixing the above problem instead of having a conditional in the
> interrupt handler fast path?
>

So there in an default handler for this in the clockevent framework.
OK, for this approach.
I'll send another patch.

Greetings from Cologne
Hans Ulli Kroll

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