[Xen-devel] [PATCH] sparse: makes dom0 boot on SMP

[Ryan Grimm <grimm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

recently, i have been unable to boot dom0 with SMP on an x86 and x86_64 
box with the latest changeset.  today, i was able to boot dom0 reliably by 
unapplying the patch from changeset 7275 to 7276 (that is included as the 
first attachment as a reference).
starting with a fresh pull, i am able to boot dom0 by making NS_PER_TICK a 
signed long long instead of unsigned long long (patch included as second 
attachment).
i assume the original motivation of changing NS_PER_TICK to a 64-bit value 
was for the jiffies_to_st function, since it includes a multiply, delta 
* NS_PER_TICK.
The only other function NS_PER_TICK seems to appear in is 
timer_interrupt().  i do not know why the original change from 
signed to unsigned would cause dom0 to fail on my smp machines.  perhaps someone 
with more knowledge of time.c can shed some light?
thanks,
ryan

Attachment: 7276.patch
Description: diff of 7275 to 7276

Attachment: smp_fix.patch
Description: patch to make dom0 boot with SMP

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