| Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:50:40 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.10 126/129] clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters |
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 10:09:50AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 10:39:15PM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > This patch alone may break ARM systems booted at hyp mode or when KVM is > in use, causing CPUs to have different views of time or for a given > CPU's view of time to jump backwards. > > The following two commits in mainline fix those two problems by ensuring > all CPUs have the same virtual timer offset (zero), and maintaining it > across KVM world switches. On arm64 the requisite CNTVOFF zeroing is > already present in linux-3.10.y. > > 0af0b189abf7 (ARM: hyp: initialize CNTVOFF to zero) > f793c23ebbe5 (ARM: KVM: arch_timers: zero CNTVOFF upon return to host)
Thanks, I've now queued up both of these patches as well. With that, we should be ok, right?
greg k-h
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