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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: don't compile vsmp_64 for 32bit

* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:

> > unsynchronized_tsc() just returns a guess anyway, and if you
> > don't have X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC set, then it will return
> > unstable for your hardware anyway, even without the
> > is_vsmp_box() test.
>
> Unfortunately we use hardware which has X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC.
>
> >
> > Failing that, you could add yourself to bad_tsc_dmi_table[] and
> > have that mark the tsc as unstable (you have DMI, right?).
> >
>
> Newer versions of the VMM does, but older ones don't :(, and
> obviously we have older versions out in the field that still needs
> to be supported.

But those old versions wont have X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC set,
right?

Ingo


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