From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix the potential of encountering
	panic "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! ..."
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:13:29 +0100
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* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> >From all I can tell, the below reproduced full description of the
> original Linux patch applies to Xen, too - at least in the watchdog 
> enabled case IRQs can be enabled when entering setup_IO_APIC(). My 
> attention to this change really got caught just by the fact that it got 
> added to our (2.6.16-based) SLE10 kernel pretty recently.

note that we had to revert that eventually. The real solution is an array 
of fixes from Maciej spread out over many months.

	Ingo