Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:18:41 +0000 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to handle overflow |
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>>> On 09.02.11 at 10:53, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote: > On 02/09/2011 10:44 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> On 09.02.11 at 10:21, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote: >>> On 02/09/2011 09:31 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> Fixes a hang when booting as dom0 under Xen, when jiffies can be >>>> quite large by the time the kernel init gets this far. >>> >>> As I wrote this might happen if the boot till this point takes ~ 5 >>> minutes because we start at -5 minutes. >>> >>> That said, is this a candidate for stable? (If so, please CC stable.) >> >> Honestly, I'm not certain (given that mainline Xen Dom0 support >> is still only in its beginnings). > > What about other VMs? If I run few non-kvm qemu VMs (kvm presets lpj) on > a busy dual-core machine, this will be a problem too, right?
Yes, quite possible indeed.
Jan
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