Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:48:02 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to handle overflow |
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On 02/09/2011 05:18 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> 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.
Seems like stable material since it 1) has fixed a real bug, and 2) is the right way to do things anyway. It just hasn't been seen to fix a bug in a stable kernel, so perhaps not. If it were any more complex then wouldn't push it.
J
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