VMware patches for Ubuntu

[Alok Kataria]

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 15:24 -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Alok Kataria wrote:
> > These patches fix some of the TSC related bugs which occur only in a
> > virtualized environment. The reason they are important for VMware is
> > because we rely on TSC as the primary clocksource for timekeeping rather
> > than a paravirtualized clocksource.
> 
> Sorry, if this has been asked before already: any chance these patches can 
> be included upstream? Or were they already?

These patches have been included upstream for 2.6.29-rc1, 
last time I had asked Tim to include they were only in the x86-tip
tree. 

The reason I had to do a manual backport was because the x86
architecture specific header files were moved into
arch/x86/include...,in 2.6.28-rc1, which meant the headers files to be
patched were missing in intrepid tree (2.6.27 based) and hence the
patches didn't apply as-is.

Also please note that, each of the patch description has the git commit
id from mainline.

Thanks,
Alok
> 
> Christian.