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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to handle overflow
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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