On 04/07/2011 11:38 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> Not really. The TSC register is a requirement, but that's going to be
>> present on any CPU which can boot Xen. We don't need any of the
>> kernel's TSC machinery though.
> So why the Kconfig dependency then? In principal a kernel compiled for a
> non-TSC processor (which meets the other requirements for Xen, such as
> PAE support) will run just fine under Xen on a newer piece of hardware.
Not sure where it came from. It was probably never needed, or just
added for some secondary effect we wanted.
> Is there any downside to this patch (is X86_CMPXCHG in the same sort of
> boat?)
Only if we don't use cmpxchg in shared memory with other domains or the
hypervisor. (I don't think it will dynamically switch between real and
emulated cmpxchg depending on availability.)
J
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