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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: current not very current (vs curr_vcpu)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:45:36 +0000
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On 24/02/2010 03:55, "Mukesh Rathor" <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> wrote:

>> Given the only thing this apparently affected was some of your own
>> ad-hoc debug code, do we really care about this at all? We can
>> probably happily just leave it.
> 
> Well, I'm afraid not. It breaks the debug code to debug the hang. More
> importantly, it also breaks my debuggers, which some people from outside
> oracle are also using. Most of our new high end servers are accessed
> via virtual serial port, so if ns16550_poll() call is related to it,
> then it'll only get worse. Moreover, anybody reading and copying that
> code to do something similar will be misled.

Okay, see how xen-unstable:20969 works for you.

 -- Keir