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Subject[PATCH 7/11] Vmi timer race
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Because timer code moves around, and we might eventually move our init to a
late_time_init hook, save and restore IRQs around this code because it is
definitely not interrupt safe.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>

diff -r dd4d4324a5b3 arch/i386/kernel/vmitime.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmitime.c Thu Feb 01 23:53:06 2007 -0800
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmitime.c Fri Feb 02 00:03:05 2007 -0800
@@ -178,7 +178,9 @@ void __init vmi_time_init(void)
void __init vmi_time_init(void)
{
unsigned long long cycles_per_sec, cycles_per_msec;
-
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
setup_irq(0, &vmi_timer_irq);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
set_intr_gate(LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR, apic_vmi_timer_interrupt);
@@ -222,6 +224,8 @@ void __init vmi_time_init(void)
VMI_ALARM_WIRED_IRQ0 | VMI_ALARM_IS_PERIODIC | VMI_CYCLES_AVAILABLE,
per_cpu(process_times_cycles_accounted_cpu, 0) + cycles_per_alarm,
cycles_per_alarm);
+
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
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