From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753931Ab1BIJxl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 04:53:41 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:33967 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753859Ab1BIJxj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 04:53:39 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=tZQblT2U/PfMe8DkaU+LcbgvCMbPfIQyZPtP3ZLb9PshmK5kRPFJGtab/JZWsF5uGa M5EPRBOxFDL8TTbCx0T0Zij3mHq8R8mS+VrLQ6J6XoPy1kd+tC3j8LEnDcqZ4gwDXYVE p6bJVZhgQ5q5iIwzEFZ8ic5fOGy5Qjp6gk6l8= Message-ID: <4D52641E.9020001@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:53:34 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 SUSE/3.1.7 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich CC: Tim Deegan , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to handle overflow References: <4D525EF00200007800030F0F@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4D525CA8.60604@suse.cz> <4D526FF40200007800030FEF@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <4D526FF40200007800030FEF@vpn.id2.novell.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/09/2011 10:44 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 09.02.11 at 10:21, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> On 02/09/2011 09:31 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> Fixes a hang when booting as dom0 under Xen, when jiffies can be >>> quite large by the time the kernel init gets this far. >> >> As I wrote this might happen if the boot till this point takes ~ 5 >> minutes because we start at -5 minutes. >> >> That said, is this a candidate for stable? (If so, please CC stable.) > > Honestly, I'm not certain (given that mainline Xen Dom0 support > is still only in its beginnings). What about other VMs? If I run few non-kvm qemu VMs (kvm presets lpj) on a busy dual-core machine, this will be a problem too, right? regards, -- js suse labs