i386: Vmi timer race From: Zachary Amsden Because timer code moves around, and we might eventually move our init to a late_time_init hook, save and restore IRQs around this code because it is definitely not interrupt safe. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- arch/i386/kernel/vmitime.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/vmitime.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/vmitime.c +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/vmitime.c @@ -180,7 +180,9 @@ unsigned long long vmi_sched_clock(void) void __init vmi_time_init(void) { unsigned long long cycles_per_sec, cycles_per_msec; + unsigned long flags; + local_irq_save(flags); setup_irq(0, &vmi_timer_irq); #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC set_intr_gate(LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR, apic_vmi_timer_interrupt); @@ -224,6 +226,8 @@ void __init vmi_time_init(void) VMI_ALARM_WIRED_IRQ0 | VMI_ALARM_IS_PERIODIC | VMI_CYCLES_AVAILABLE, per_cpu(process_times_cycles_accounted_cpu, 0) + cycles_per_alarm, cycles_per_alarm); + + local_irq_restore(flags); } #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC