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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] call write_guest_time as soon as we
 register the paravirt clock.
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:47:01 +0200
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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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