[Intrepid] SRU Include backport of vmware stable TSC patchset

[Stefan Bader]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/319945

This is the port to Jaunty of those patches.

SRU justification:

Impact: Timekeeping relies on TSC which is always stable in the virtualized
vmware environment. But the code to detect TSC as a stable clocksource fails.
Together with the possibility of the acpi_pm timer to wrap around while not
scheduled, this can cause several second clocksews.

Fix: This patch series was backported to Intrepid and will get included with
2.6.29rc3. The changes do not look like they could cause regressions. However
they require an ABI bump for adding elements to per_cpu__cpu_info and
boot_cpu_data.

Stefan



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