From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
To: Derek Murray <Derek.Murray@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Soft lockup/Time went backwards in latest unstable
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:03:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C20B2022.A511%keir@xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4A520D0-B3A7-4C7B-A909-CFD76A4BE14F@cl.cam.ac.uk>
On 28/2/07 11:25, "Derek Murray" <Derek.Murray@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> The only relevant changes between changesets 13212 and 13213 apply to
> the file linux-2.6-xen-sparse/arch/i386/kernel/process-xen.c (and the
> corresponding x86_64 file), to which a poll_idle() function has been
> added. I don't quite understand the significance of this, but could
> it be responsible for the bug that I'm seeing?
You are almost certainly picking up acpi_processor_idle() or apm_cpu_idle().
You might want to check this. I don't think any good could come of this. :-)
I'll have a think about the best fix...
-- Keir
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-23 19:10 Soft lockup/Time went backwards in latest unstable Derek Murray
2007-02-23 23:08 ` Keir Fraser
2007-02-26 12:39 ` Derek Murray
2007-02-26 13:22 ` Keir Fraser
2007-02-28 11:25 ` Derek Murray
2007-02-28 12:03 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
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