RE: [Xen-devel] [timer/ticks related] dom0 hang during boot on large 1TB system

[Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [mailto:jeremy@xxxxxxxx]
>
> There's some code in the pvops kernel which looks vaguely 
> like that, but 
> it has nothing to do with timer interrupts.  Could you be 
> more specific 
> about what you're referring to?

I spent some time rooting through the 2.6.32 code and
ended up with my head spinning.  I think the bottom line
is if there is code that may cause jiffies to increment
by a large amount from a single "tick" delivered by
Xen, it's likely the same problem can occur in 2.6.32
dom0 when running on Xen.

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