Revert "clockevents: Set noop handler in clockevents_exchange_device()"

This reverts commit de28f25e8244c7353abed8de0c7792f5f883588c.

It results in resume problems for various people. See for example

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233033
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233389
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233159
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1227868/focus=1230877

and the fedora and ubuntu bug reports

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767248
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/904569

which got bisected down to the stable version of this commit.

Reported-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Phil Miller <mille121@illinois.edu>
Reported-by: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>
Reported-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org    # for stable kernels that applied the original
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index c4eb71c..1ecd6ba 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -387,7 +387,6 @@ void clockevents_exchange_device(struct clock_event_device *old,
         * released list and do a notify add later.
         */
        if (old) {
         * released list and do a notify add later.
         */
        if (old) {

-               old->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop;

                clockevents_set_mode(old, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED);
                list_del(&old->list);
                list_add(&old->list, &clockevents_released);
                clockevents_set_mode(old, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED);
                list_del(&old->list);
                list_add(&old->list, &clockevents_released);