[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] x86: fix the potential of encountering panic "IO-APIC+ timer doesn't work! ..."

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> 12.12.08 10:13 >>>
>
>* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >From all I can tell, the below reproduced full description of the
>> original Linux patch applies to Xen, too - at least in the watchdog 
>> enabled case IRQs can be enabled when entering setup_IO_APIC(). My 
>> attention to this change really got caught just by the fact that it got 
>> added to our (2.6.16-based) SLE10 kernel pretty recently.
>
>note that we had to revert that eventually. The real solution is an array 
>of fixes from Maciej spread out over many months.

What do you mean by 'eventually'? 2.6.28-rc8 still has this code, and so
does -tip.

Confused, Jan


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