Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix dump-capture kernel hangs with notsc

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Mon Aug 01 2016 - 16:12:27 EST


"Wei, Jiangang" <weijg.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Ping ...
> May I ask for some community attention to this series?
> I purpose is fixing the dump-capture kernel hangs in
> calibrate_delay_converge() while specifying notsc.

Did you not see my reply to patch 3/3?

The short version of my feedback is that you seem to be fixing a case
that should not exist. So the good fix is to skip completely past
virtual wire mode and into full apic mode as soon as possible.

For a subset of cases the code already supports that.

Eric