[PATCH v3 0/2] timer: make deferrable cpu unbound timers really not bound to a cpu

From: Prasad Sodagudi
Date: Sat May 02 2020 - 14:29:16 EST


These patches are introducing support for global deferrable timers
and this feature is very useful for the mobile chipsets. All comments
in initial discussion [1] are addressed. Here is the latest discussion - [2]
as these patches are in downstream kernel for quite a long time.

[1]- https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/500541/
[2]- https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/16/147

Changelog:
v2 -> v3:
- Fixed 'kbuild test robot' warnings.

v1 -> v2:
- Fixed tglx comments about warning.
- Thanks Pavan for your suggestion.

Joonwoo Park (1):
timer: make deferrable cpu unbound timers really not bound to a cpu

Prasad Sodagudi (1):
sched: Add a check for cpu unbound deferrable timers

include/linux/timer.h | 3 +++
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 8 +++++-
kernel/time/timer.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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