From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
        Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, peterz@infradead.org,
        tglx@linutronix.de, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, rlippert@google.com,
        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org,
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        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@linaro.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] cpuidle: updates related to tick_broadcast_enter() failures
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 02:16:11 +0200
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On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 03:59:55 PM Kevin Hilman wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Second, quite honestly, I don't see a connection to genpd here.
> 
> The connection with genpd is because the *reason* the timer was
> shutdown/stopped is because it shares power with the CPU, which is why
> the timer stops when the CPU hits ceratin low power states.  IOW, it's
> in the same power domain as the CPU.

Well, what if you don't have genpd on that system?  Is the problem at hand not
relevant then magically?

Rafael

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