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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Mar 24 2007 - 18:33:43 EST



* Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >+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.

tsc_disable should be renamed to tsc_disable_override or so, to signal
that it's only the mirror of the 'notsc' flag the user passed in over
the boot line.

Ingo
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