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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Timer ISR/0: Timer went backwards error...
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:56:05 +0100
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On 3/7/08 17:43, "Sandesh" <sandesh.ahiremath@wipro.com> wrote:

> To be more specific about the problem, it happens only when i try to
> return from the hypervisor kdb. But since many others have/had the same
> problem without the use of hypervisor kdb, i dont think its due to the
> kdb. I had never got this error before, so suerly kdb must be triggering
> something here.

Quite a relevant bit of information I'd say. It's certainly related, since
time structures in Xen will not be updated and kept synchronised while kdb
has the system locked down. Indeed the time deltas you see are huge, so the
timeout in kdb has sent time handling haywire.

 -- Keir