linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] Hypervisor detection and get tsc

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Message-ID: <20081027110134.GC13641@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:01:34 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from
	hypervisor

* Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com> wrote:

> The DMI + Backdoor [...]

please do _NOT_ call anything like this a "backdoor", anywhere in the 
source or the commit log. "Backdoor" is most commonly used for 
intentional security holes, and we dont want anything like that in the 
kernel code. What this code implements is not a backdoor, it is simply 
a facility to discover the hypervisor environment, not a "backdoor".

	Ingo
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