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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>,
	"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"daniel.lezcano@linaro.org" <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	"akataria@vmware.com" <akataria@vmware.com>,
	"olaf@aepfle.de" <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	"apw@canonical.com" <apw@canonical.com>,
	vkuznets <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"marcelo.cerri@canonical.com" <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>,
	KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] i8253: Fix PIT shutdown quirk on Hyper-V
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 08:40:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11f82d95-539c-b680-183b-b6c5c60468a8@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1541093374-10496-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com>

On 01/11/2018 18:30, Michael Kelley wrote:
> pit_shutdown() doesn't work on Hyper-V because of a quirk in the
> PIT emulation. This problem exists in all versions of Hyper-V and
> had not been noticed previously. When the counter register is set
> to zero, the emulated PIT continues to interrupt @18.2 HZ.
> 
> So add a test for running on Hyper-V, and use that test to skip
> setting the counter register when running on Hyper-V.
> 
> This patch replaces a previously proposed patch with a different
> approach. This new approach follows comments from Thomas Gleixner.

Did you consider using a static_key instead? You could set it in
ms_hyperv_init_platform(). This would enable you to support future
Hyper-V versions which don't require avoiding to set the count to zero.


Juergen

       reply	other threads:[~2018-11-02  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1541093374-10496-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com>
2018-11-02  7:40 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2018-11-03 17:22   ` [PATCH 0/2] i8253: Fix PIT shutdown quirk on Hyper-V Thomas Gleixner

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