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    [PATCH] paravirt: Add option to allow skipping the timer check · 8542b200
    Zachary Amsden 提交于
    Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option.  The
    VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which
    probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings.  It fires
    100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using
    a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs
    have not yet been delivered.
    
    In addition, it is entirely possible, though improbable, that this bug
    could surface on real hardware which picks a particularly bad time to enter
    SMM mode, causing a long latency during one of the timer IRQs.
    
    While here, make check_timer be __init.
    Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
    Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    [chrisw: use no_timer_check to bring inline with x86_64 as per Andi's request]
    Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    8542b200
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