Re: x86 MSRs - example program

Marc Lehmann (mlehmann@hildesheim.sgh-net.de)
Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:32:19 +0100 (MET)


>Maybe I'm being paranoid here, but this could be a security hole of some
>type.

I hope nobody does this.. I would encourage an addition to linux
that clears that bit, so one can safely use rdtsc to do
performance measurements..

I would probably die without that possibility while
improving gcc...

ON the other hand... security hole????? how????????

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