On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:20:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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). Aw too bad, but indeed that late we don't have the choice.