linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] KVM: x86: disable stealtime on reboot to avoid mem corruption

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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:31:42 -0300
From:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	glommer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] KVM: x86: disable stealtime on reboot to avoid mem
 corruption

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 04:00:40PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> else, host continues to update stealtime after reboot,
> which can corrupt e.g. initramfs area.
> found when tracking down initramfs unpack error on initial reboot
> (with qemu-kvm -smp 2, no problem with single-core).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

Applied, thanks.

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