linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 0/2] xen: maintain an accurate persistent clock in more cases

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Message-ID: <51A873B9.4000407@citrix.com>
Date:	Fri, 31 May 2013 10:56:09 +0100
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
CC:	<xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/2] xen: maintain an accurate persistent clock in more
 cases

On 31/05/13 00:55, John Stultz wrote:
> On 05/30/2013 07:25 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
>> 
>> These series fixes the above limitations and depends on "x86: increase
>> precision of x86_platform.get/set_wallclock()" which was previously
>> posted.
> 
> This is the only area that will need some coordination cross the Xen
> tree and tip/timers/core (once that patch and the fix for it I have
> queued lands in -tip). The options here are:
> 
> * I queue these two patches with proper Xen maintainer's acks/review

I'm happy for this to be queues for 3.11.  Although the series does fix
a bug it's one that I don't think affects that many people (I don't
think I seen any bug reports from anyone else).

We're only rarely seeing the problem in our automated test system which
is not a typical setup.

David
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