On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Alok Kataria wrote: > Hi, > > There are a couple of patches, actually fixes, related to VMI > ( paravirtualization) which were applied to the mainline kernel. The > regression is present in all the kernels starting from 2.6.25. Given > that Debian 5 is based of kernel version 2.6.26 we would need these > patches in the Debian kernel too. > > The commits I am talking about are > commit 55a8ba4b7f76bebd7e8ce3f74c04b140627a1bad > x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor > commit 48ffc70b675aa7798a52a2e92e20f6cce9140b3d > x86, vmi: TSC going backwards check in vmi clocksource > > Not sure what the protocol is to ask for submissions, but I would know > after this, i guess. > > Let me know if you would need anything else from me.
please file a bug with severity important so that the patches can be accepted for a stable backport. do the above patches apply to 2.6.26? could you later on test snapshots? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org