Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:44:25 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: Experiencing freezes with kernel 4.16.3 on a desktop with E5500 CPU (bisect included) |
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 05:58:01PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Thomas, we could not find the de-rate stuff, but the above can be > simplified; what happens is: > > cs->flags |= UNSTABLE; > schedule_work(&watchdog_work) > kthread_run(clocksource_watchdog_kthread)
Also, Thomas, do you remember why we spawn a short running kthread from a work ? Can't we simply run the whole thing from the worker thread?
> __clocksource_watchdog_kthread() > if (cs->flags & UNSTABLE) > __clocksource_change_rating() > clocksource_select() >
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