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Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup.c notsc Re: Microsecond accuracy
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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> 
> The present situation is inconsistent: "notsc" removes cpuinfo's
> "tsc" flag in the UP case (when cpu_data[0] is boot_cpu_data), but
> not in the SMP case.  I don't believe HPA's recent mods affected that
> behaviour, but it is made consistent (cleared in SMP case too) by the
> patch I sent him a couple of days ago, below updated for test12-pre7...
> 

Great.  You've taken something that was somewhat broken in the UP case and 
introduced massive braindamage in the SMP case.  What really needs to be is 
that the global enables (boot_cpu_data) should be exposed.

    -hpa




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