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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] Turn off pending guest timer printk

To: "Tristan Gingold" <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>, "Magenheimer, Dan \(HP Labs Fort Collins\)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>, <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] Turn off pending guest timer printk
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:21:21 +0800
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>From: Tristan Gingold
>Sent: 2006年3月15日 16:31
>>
>> The similar "Oops: timer tick before it's due" from Linux
>> is probably related but not understood or fixed.
>Sorry, but I do not agree.
>
>As far as I know, there are no anymore "Oops: timer" messages from
>Linux when
>SMP is turn on.
>Does everybody agree ?
>
>However, there are still "Oops: timer" message from Xen.  I have maybe
>an
>explaination for this message, but I have to investigate.  Also, this
>message
>is harmless.
>

As Dan said, message from Xen is only debug output to indication an 
erroneous condition captured and fixed. It's harmless and no need to 
be there. I'm not sure whether message from linux still jumps out 
nowadays. If yes, that's a bug to be fixed.

Thanks,
Kevin

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