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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm: external module: do not hardcode tsc_khz
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:36:13 +0200
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> external module compat hard codes tsc_khz as 2000000 if KERNEL_VERSION <
> (2,6,23).
>
> This breaks kvmclock on hosts with different frequency.
>
> While tsc_khz was only exported on 2.6.23, the majority of relevant
> older v2.6 based distros seem to have it exported.
>   

Applied, thanks.

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