linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i386: Prevent early access to TSC to avoid crash on TSCless systems

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Message-ID: <3d8471ca0703241530x79149b20sfb146fd77188c342@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:30:46 +0100
From:	"Guillaume Chazarain" <guichaz@...oo.fr>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"john stultz" <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Prevent early access to TSC to avoid crash on TSCless systems

> +static int tsc_enabled;

So, now we have tsc_disable, tsc_enabled and tsc_unstable.
I can understand the latter, but this lacks orthogonality IMHO.

-- 
Guillaume
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