linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Restrict TSC test code to x86

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Message-Id: <CF6E40FB-3CB1-43BD-8691-46AD21DA62A0@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:12:43 +0100
From:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	"afaerber@...e.de" <afaerber@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Restrict TSC test code to x86




> Am 28.10.2014 um 13:47 schrieb Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:07:51 -0400
> Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com> wrote:
> 
>>> The prctl test code in Documentation/ tries to show how to
>>> use a call that only makes sense on x86. Restrict it there
>>> so that other platforms don't try to call asm("rdtsc").
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>  
>> 
>> Acked-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>
> 
> Snagged into the docs tree, thanks.

Awesome, please make sure this makes it into 3.18 - the build is broken on non-x86 archs there ;).

Alex

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