From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, chrisw@sous-sol.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] call write_guest_time as soon as we register the paravirt clock.
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:47:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BE7DF5.4020602@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203627854-4216-1-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com>
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> From: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
>
> In situations, like, cpu hotplugging, a cpu can arrive
> later on the game and register its paravirt clock
> while everything else is already running, which will lead to
> breakage, since the time readings will return bogus values.
>
> To prevent this, we write system time as soon as the guest
> registers its clock
>
Applied, thanks.
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2008-02-21 21:04 [PATCH] call write_guest_time as soon as we register the paravirt clock Glauber de Oliveira Costa
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