linux-kernel - Re: please revert commit 53f1b1433da7eac2607a4a0898a221a4485fd732 (rtc: push the BKL down into the driver ioctl method)

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Message-ID: <b6a2187b0807251918w2b2b3810h6c90df28a3261c7f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:18:49 +0800
From:	"Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eli Collins" <ecollins@...are.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: please revert commit 53f1b1433da7eac2607a4a0898a221a4485fd732 (rtc: push the BKL down into the driver ioctl method)

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> Jeff Chua wrote:
>>
>> This commit is breaking vmware-6.0.4. Upon booting linux (guest) on
>> vmware, the whole vmware environment crashed.
>
> Quality hypervisor we have there...
>
>        -hpa
>

Well then, lets hope Vmware will do something to fix this and remove
the init_mm stuff.

Thanks,
Jeff.
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