TSC going back for VMI clocksource.

[Tim Gardner]

Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The patch which fixes this TSC going back issue for vmi clocksource is
> already applied in mainline and stable kernels for 2.6.27/28, so I guess
> intrepid and jaunty will get it from there. 
> 
> I just wanted to bring this to your attention for the *hardy* tree. 
> The commit details are : 
> 
> commit 48ffc70b675aa7798a52a2e92e20f6cce9140b3d
> Author: Alok N Kataria <akataria at vmware.com>
> Date:   Wed Feb 18 12:33:55 2009 -0800
> 
>     x86, vmi: TSC going backwards check in vmi clocksource
> 
> Can you please pick this up for the hardy tree ? 
> Also I see that the TSC patches that I had sent to you earlier are in
> the hardy git tree, but not available as an kernel update yet, right ? 
> In that case can we please queue this patch too for the next update
> along with the TSC patches. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Alok
> 

ACK. Virtualizing the TSC must be hard, 'cause this is the third TSC
patch since the kernel was released.

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