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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, TSC: Add a software TSC offset
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:00:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140722080016.GY3935@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXOpcegDp+eUTWqDkO0jWqgJNYhKJW=HbzvT1ga4Ekxog@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 03:13:33PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> I actually own one of these systems.  It's a Sandy Bridge Core-i7
> >> Extreme or something like that.
> >
> > Ha, cool, so I've got my tester! :-)
> 
> Ha.  Ha ha.  Muahaha.  Because IIRC this box is synced until the first
> time it suspends.

Oh cute, one of those :-) Yes some BIOSes write 'random' crap into the
TSC when doing the S states jig. We have some tsc suspend/resume hooks
to correct the worst of that, but yeah screwy that.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-22  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-19 13:06 [PATCH] x86, TSC: Add a software TSC offset Borislav Petkov
2014-07-19 13:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-21 19:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-21 21:35   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-21 21:41     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-21 21:52       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-21 21:56         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-21 22:06           ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-07-21 22:11             ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-07-21 22:14               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-21 22:08           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-21 22:13             ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-21 22:30               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-21 22:43                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-21 23:01                   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-22  8:00               ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-07-22  7:57           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-22  2:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-07-22  8:59   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-22 12:05 ` Borislav Petkov

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