From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix the potential of encountering panic "IO-APIC+ timer doesn't work! ..."
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:50:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49424210.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081212091329.GG25106@elte.hu>
>>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 12.12.08 10:13 >>>
>
>* 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.
What do you mean by 'eventually'? 2.6.28-rc8 still has this code, and so
does -tip.
Confused, Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-12 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-11 10:39 [PATCH] x86: fix the potential of encountering panic "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! ..." Jan Beulich
2008-12-11 11:14 ` Keir Fraser
2008-12-12 9:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-12 9:23 ` Keir Fraser
2008-12-12 9:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-12 9:37 ` Keir Fraser
2008-12-12 9:54 ` Re: [PATCH] x86: fix the potential of encounteringpanic " Jan Beulich
2008-12-12 9:50 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2008-12-12 10:06 ` [PATCH] x86: fix the potential of encountering panic "IO-APIC+ " Ingo Molnar
2008-12-12 10:37 ` Keir Fraser
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