On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 01:21:11PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote: SNIP > > hum, the swevent pmu does not triger NMI, so that timer > > will never be touched in NMI context > > Good to know! So I worry too much here. > > But still, given hrtimer interrupt is called with IRQ disabled, getting > stuck in a hrtimer callback could also block IPI handler, therefore > causing soft lockups. > > Let me know if you want me to adjust the changelog for this. yep, it's confusing, I think it should be removed from changelog jirka