[Intrepid] SRU Include backport of vmware stable TSC patchset

[Tim Gardner]

Stefan Bader wrote:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/319945
> 
> This is the port to Jaunty of those patches.
> 
> SRU justification:
> 
> Impact: Timekeeping relies on TSC which is always stable in the virtualized
> vmware environment. But the code to detect TSC as a stable clocksource
> fails.
> Together with the possibility of the acpi_pm timer to wrap around while not
> scheduled, this can cause several second clocksews.
> 
> Fix: This patch series was backported to Intrepid and will get included
> with
> 2.6.29rc3. The changes do not look like they could cause regressions.
> However
> they require an ABI bump for adding elements to per_cpu__cpu_info and
> boot_cpu_data.
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 

applied

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