linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86/vmware for v5.13

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Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:25:05 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/vmware for v5.13

Hi Linus,

please pull a single fix for vmware guests, for v5.13.

Thx.

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The following changes since commit 0d02ec6b3136c73c09e7859f0d0e4e2c4c07b49b:

  Linux 5.12-rc4 (2021-03-21 14:56:43 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/x86_vmware_for_v5.13

for you to fetch changes up to 0b4a285e2c65c2c9449c6eccb87298e385213e7b:

  x86/vmware: Avoid TSC recalibration when frequency is known (2021-03-28 21:11:43 +0200)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Have vmware guests skip the refined TSC calibration when the TSC
frequency has been retrieved from the hypervisor.

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Alexey Makhalov (1):
      x86/vmware: Avoid TSC recalibration when frequency is known

 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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