On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:47:16AM -1000, Zachary Amsden wrote: > On 10/08/2010 10:59 PM, Arjan Koers wrote: > >On 2010-10-09 08:29, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >... > >>The result is that no released linux kernel boots > >>in smp in kvm, which is a linux virtual machine. > >>That's irony, isn't it? > >> > >>I wonder how distributions (which are almost all based > >>on 2.6.32 nowadays) will deal with the issue.. ;) > >It looks like Debian solved it on their 2.6.32 guest by > >reverting the commit that makes it hang: > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588426 > > That's not a wise choice, the commit is needed to prevent clocks > going backwards. It then caused some fallout issues with clobbers, > which I believe hpa fixed, but there were several rounds of it. > > Glauber, perhaps, has a better idea of what patches are needed for > the host side kvmclock. I've mostly been working on the server > side. No, all the recent patches I wrote towards fixing kvmclock problems touch the guest. The host side ones are nice to have, but not stable/needed material -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
