On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:56:59AM +0800, Daniel Drake wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:38 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 604dc9170f2435d27da5039a3efd757dceadc684 ]
In my opinion this is not stable kernel material.
It alone does not solve a particular bug. It's part of a larger effort
to decrease usage of the 8254 PIT on modern platforms, which solves a
real problem (see "x86: skip PIT initialization on modern chipsets"),
but I'd conservatively recommend just leaving these patches out of the
stable tree. The problem has existed for a while without a
particularly wide impact, and there is a somewhat documented
workaround of changing BIOS settings.
I've dropped it, thanks!
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Thanks,
Sasha
