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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:44:04 +0000
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: "Jiri Slaby" <jslaby@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct
	 to handle overflow
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>>> On 09.02.11 at 10:21, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> 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).

Jan