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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: kvmclock: Do not setup kvmclock vsyscall in the absence of that clock
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:38:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51615AC8.8030308@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130407113709.GQ17919@redhat.com>

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On 2013-04-07 13:37, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 01:33:05PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2013-02-27 12:19, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 05:05:29PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>>>
>>>> This fixes boot lockups with "no-kvmclock", when the host is not
>>>> exposing this particular feature (QEMU: -cpu ...,-kvmclock) or when
>>>> the kvmclock initialization failed for whatever reason.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>> Applied, thanks.
>>
>> Just noticed that this fix isn't in Linus tree yet, thus also not yet in
>> 3.8.y. Which route does it take?
>>
> It is scheduled to go into 3.10. To get it into 3.8.y we need to send it
> to stable@.

Hmm, it's a bug fix for an ugly early kernel crash...

Jan



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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-07 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-23 16:05 [PATCH] x86: kvmclock: Do not setup kvmclock vsyscall in the absence of that clock Jan Kiszka
2013-02-23 16:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-26  2:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-27 11:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-07 11:33   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-04-07 11:37     ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-07 11:38       ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2013-04-07 11:45         ` Gleb Natapov

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