Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert "acpi: mark PMTIMER as unlocked"

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fr, 2016-04-15 at 12:10 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> On 15/04/2016 08:43, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > This reverts commit 7070e085d490c396f9237c8f10bf8b6e69cd0066.
> > 
> > Commit message claims locking is not needed, but that appears
> > to not be true, seabios ehci driver runs into timekeeping problems
> > with this, see
> >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1322713
> 
> I need to look into it further, because for example the same problem
> would happen if you moved the PMTIMER to the hypervisor (Xen does this).
>  But for now this is the right fix, I agree.

Peter, can you pick up this one for 2.6?

thanks,
  Gerd