On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I haven't followed the discussion but this patch has a known issue which is fixed > with: > 7bdb59f1ad474bd7161adc8f923cdef10f2638d1 > "tick/nohz: Fix possible missing clock reprog after tick soft restart" > > I hope this fixes your issue. No, Pavel saw the problem with rc8 too, which already has that fix. So I think we'll just need to revert that original patch (and that means that we have to revert the commit you point to as well, since that ->next_tick field was added by the original commit). Pavel, can you verify that rc8 with both 24b91e360ef521a2808771633d76ebc68bd5604b 7bdb59f1ad474bd7161adc8f923cdef10f2638d1 reverted works reliably for you? Linus