linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/11] Fix PIT override bug for paravirt

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Message-ID: <20070206123023.GE47229@muc.de>
Date:	Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:30:23 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
To:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/11] Fix PIT override bug for paravirt

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:53:02PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> The time initialization changed for i386 when some code moved into time_init.
> This made it no longer possible to override the PIT / HPET, which broke
> paravirt guests.

Looks still fragile. Can this be done cleaner? 

In particularly some comments would be good, but clearer code 
logic would be preferred.

-Andi
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