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

>>> "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> 22.12.09 15:17 >>>
>There's another thing that seems inconsistent with this report: jiffies
>itself as well as all the arithmetic in calibrate_delay_direct() is using
>"unsigned long", so is being done 64-bit on x86-64 (which we're
>talking about here). Hence I can see even less how an overflow could
>have happened, or how using explicit 64-bit types (or get_jiffies_64())
>here can help.

Oh, or are we talking about 32-bit Dom0 on 64-bit Xen here? I don't
recall this having been mentioned anywhere, but maybe I just
overlooked it.

Jan


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