On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:58:38 +1100 Cyril Bur <cyril...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 14:34 +1100, Cyril Bur wrote: > > When the hypervisor pauses a virtualised kernel the kernel will observe a > > jump > > in timebase, this can cause spurious messages from the softlockup detector. > > > > Whilst these messages are harmless, they are accompanied with a stack trace > > which causes undue concern and more problematically the stack trace in the > > guest has nothing to do with the observed problem and can only be > > misleading. > > > > Futhermore, on POWER8 this is completely avoidable with the introduction of > > the Virtual Time Base (VTB) register. > > (Top-posting repaired. Please don't). > Could you please pick these patches up through your tree? I shall. There were quite a few review comments last time and I *think* they've been addressed(?). I'll cc the involved parties on the commits - please check? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
