Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 May 2010 23:13:29 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Export tsc related information in sysfs |
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> I'm not in favor of emulating rdtsc instructions. I would consider > letting them SIGILL (actually SIGSEGV since RDTSC #GP in userspace) when > the TSC is unavailable, though.
I doubt we could ever do that, it would likely break just too much code. Yes the code is already broken likely on some system, but there's a big difference between wrong time and crash.
-Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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