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From: Andreas Kinzler <ml-xen-devel@hfp.de>
Subject: Re: (XEN) Platform timer appears to have unexpectedly
 wrapped 10 or more times.
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:59:42 +0200
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> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:33:18PM +0200, Andreas Kinzler wrote:
>> I have the same problem. Do you use ntpd? Which version? I suspect
>> some link between the problem and ntpd.
> But ntpd is still a userland program, shouldn't the kernel exert the
> ultimate control over who gets to screw with the system's clock source?
> In any case, I did a quick grep of ntpd sources and found references to
> RDTSC only in the Windows port, so the link doesn't seem obvious.

Right, there is no obvious link (but which hard to reproduce bug is 
obvious?) but see 
"http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-10/msg01269.html". 
There seems to be some connection.

Regards Andreas