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Date:   Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:34:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tick: check if broadcast device could really be
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Benjamin GAIGNARD wrote:
> On 10/14/19 4:28 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Unless you have a solution which works under all circumstances (and the
> > current patch definitely does not) then you have to deal with the
> > requirement of the broadcast timer (either physical or software based).
> 
> If I follow you I need, for my system, a software based broadcast timer 
> (tick-broadcast-hrtimer ?).

Yes, if you don't have a physical one.
 
> If that is correct I 'just' need to add a call to
> tick_setup_hrtimer_broadcast() in arch/arm/kernel/time.c

Correct.

Thanks,

	tglx