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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-04-28 21:11:26 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-04-28 21:11:26 +0200
commit245c8e81741b51fe1281964e4a6525311be6858f (patch)
tree6013a2b56b925b7fad072f896f7503deb59a746f /Documentation
parentMerge tag 'x86-urgent-2024-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kerne... (diff)
parentsched/isolation: Fix boot crash when maxcpus < first housekeeping CPU (diff)
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Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2024-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Fix EEVDF corner cases - Fix two nohz_full= related bugs that can cause boot crashes and warnings * tag 'sched-urgent-2024-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/isolation: Fix boot crash when maxcpus < first housekeeping CPU sched/isolation: Prevent boot crash when the boot CPU is nohz_full sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweight_eevdf() sched/eevdf: Fix miscalculation in reweight_entity() when se is not curr sched/eevdf: Always update V if se->on_rq when reweighting
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst b/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
index f8786be15183..7fe8ef9718d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
+++ b/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
@@ -129,11 +129,8 @@ adaptive-tick CPUs: At least one non-adaptive-tick CPU must remain
online to handle timekeeping tasks in order to ensure that system
calls like gettimeofday() returns accurate values on adaptive-tick CPUs.
(This is not an issue for CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y because there are no running
-user processes to observe slight drifts in clock rate.) Therefore, the
-boot CPU is prohibited from entering adaptive-ticks mode. Specifying a
-"nohz_full=" mask that includes the boot CPU will result in a boot-time
-error message, and the boot CPU will be removed from the mask. Note that
-this means that your system must have at least two CPUs in order for
+user processes to observe slight drifts in clock rate.) Note that this
+means that your system must have at least two CPUs in order for
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y to do anything for you.
Finally, adaptive-ticks CPUs must have their RCU callbacks offloaded.