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From: Mats Petersson <mats.petersson@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/time: fix scale_delta() inline assembly
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:59:43 +0000
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On 26/11/12 16:51, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> I've just deployed this to a couple test servers that exhibited the problem.
>
> What I don't really understand is why are some HW affected and not others ?
I have no idea why some machines are more affected than others, but I 
can clearly see what Jan is saying, and how it will cause "weird" things 
to happen - but only if you hit the case where the calls are made in the 
right pattern, which I think is a matter of "luck". It will probably 
also matter what version of gcc is used to compile the code - different 
compiler versions will use registers in different ways.

--
Mats
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> Cheers,
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>      Sylvain
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