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Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Kill notsc

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On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> let's try this and see where it takes us. Patch has been only lightly
> tested in kvm - I'll hammer on it for real once we agree about the
> general form.
>
> Aanyway, this patch is something Peter and I have been talking about on
> IRC a couple of times already. I finally found some free time to poke at
> it, here's the result.
>
> Thoughts?

I'm a bit confused.  Is it currently the case that, if you boot a
normal kernel on a TSC-less machine without notsc, it fails?

--Andy
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[RFC PATCH] x86: Kill notsc Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-10-18 16:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Kill notsc Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-10-19 06:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Kill notsc Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-10-19 10:20 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Kill notsc Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-10-21 20:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Kill notsc Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-21 21:10 +0200
      [PATCH -v2] x86: Kill notsc Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-10-22 21:00 +0200

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