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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] Skip timer works.patch
Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:54:55PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>>> no_timer_check. But it's only there on x86-64 in mainline - although there
>>> were some patches to add it to i386 too.
>>>
>>>
>> I can rename to match the x86-64 name.
>>
>
> I will do that in my tree.
>
>
>>>> That is what this patch is building towards, but the boot option is
>>>> "free", so why not? In the meantime, it helps non-paravirt kernels
>>>> booted in a VM.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hmm, you meant they paniced before? If they just fail a few tests
>>> that is not particularly worrying (real hardware does that often too)
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, they sometimes fail to boot, and the failure message used to ask us
>> to pester mingo.
>>
>
> I still think we should figure that out automatically. Letting
> the Hypervisor pass magic boot options seems somehow unclean.
>
> But i suppose it will only work for the paravirtualized case,
> not for the case of kernel running "native" under a hypervisor
> I suppose? Or does that one not panic?
>

That is the one that can panic, for now. Fixing the paravirtualized
case is easy, but we can't assume paravirtualization just yet.

Zach


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