From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.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
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>>> 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=20
>> enabled case IRQs can be enabled when entering setup_IO_APIC(). My=20
>> attention to this change really got caught just by the fact that it =
got=20
>> 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=20
>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