Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: AMD: mark TSC unstable on APU family 15h models 10h-1fh

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jul 31 2014 - 11:48:01 EST


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:47:12AM +0000, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> Due to erratum #778 from
> "Revision Guide for AMD Family 15h Models 10h-1Fh Processors,
> Publication # 48931, Issue Date: May 2013, Revision: 3.10"
>
> TSC on affected processor, a core may drift under certain conditions,
> which makes initially synchronized TSCs to become unsynchronized.

Is this something you're seeing on a real system? If so, how do you
trigger this?

Thanks.

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