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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert "acpi: mark PMTIMER as unlocked"
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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On Fr, 2016-04-15 at 12:10 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>=20
> On 15/04/2016 08:43, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > This reverts commit 7070e085d490c396f9237c8f10bf8b6e69cd0066.
> >=20
> > Commit message claims locking is not needed, but that appears
> > to not be true, seabios ehci driver runs into timekeeping problems
> > with this, see
> > 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1322713
>=20
> I need to look into it further, because for example the same problem
> would happen if you moved the PMTIMER to the hypervisor (Xen does this).
>  But for now this is the right fix, I agree.

Peter, can you pick up this one for 2.6?

thanks,
  Gerd