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    clockevents: Prefer CPU local devices over global devices · 7281bb56
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    commit 70e5975d3a04be5479a28eec4a2fb10f98ad2785 upstream.
    
    On an SMP system with only one global clockevent and a dummy
    clockevent per CPU we run into problems. We want the dummy
    clockevents to be registered as the per CPU tick devices, but
    we can only achieve that if we register the dummy clockevents
    before the global clockevent or if we artificially inflate the
    rating of the dummy clockevents to be higher than the rating
    of the global clockevent. Failure to do so leads to boot
    hangs when the dummy timers are registered on all other CPUs
    besides the CPU that accepted the global clockevent as its tick
    device and there is no broadcast timer to poke the dummy
    devices.
    
    If we're registering multiple clockevents and one clockevent is
    global and the other is local to a particular CPU we should
    choose to use the local clockevent regardless of the rating of
    the device. This way, if the clockevent is a dummy it will take
    the tick device duty as long as there isn't a higher rated tick
    device and any global clockevent will be bumped out into
    broadcast mode, fixing the problem described above.
    
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
    Tested-by: default avatar <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
    Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
    Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
    Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
    Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130613183950.GA32061@codeaurora.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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