Messages in this thread | | | From | (Marc Lehmann) | Subject | Re: x86 MSRs - example program | Date | Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:32:19 +0100 (MET) |
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>Maybe I'm being paranoid here, but this could be a security hole of some >type.
I hope nobody does this.. I would encourage an addition to linux that clears that bit, so one can safely use rdtsc to do performance measurements..
I would probably die without that possibility while improving gcc...
ON the other hand... security hole????? how????????
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