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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The next timer (re-)evaluation, with the purpose of entering/updating the dyntick mode, can happen from 3 sites and none of them are relevant while the CPU is offline: 1) The idle loop: a) From the quick check helping the cpuidle governor to heuristically predict the best C-state. b) While stopping the tick. But if the CPU is offline, the tick has been cancelled and there is consequently no need to further stop the tick. 2) Remote expiry: when a CPU remotely expires global timers on behalf of another CPU, the latter target's next timer is re-evaluated afterwards. However remote expîry doesn't happen on offline CPUs. 3) IRQ exit: on nohz_full mode, the tick is (re-)evaluated on IRQ exit. But full dynticks is disabled on offline CPUs. Therefore it is safe to assume that no next dyntick timer lookup can be performed on offline CPUs. Assert this expectation to report any surprise. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-17-frederic@kernel.org
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