Re: [PATCH v2 13/17] x86/tsc: Rename native_read_tsc() to rdtsc_unordered()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:25:49AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I could go either way here.  rdtsc() is weird because people seem to
> forget about the barrier.

Yeah, our job is only to give them enough rope...

> Maybe I'm being unnecessarily paranoid.

You can always slap a comment above the rdtsc() definition saying that
people should use the _ordered() version if they wanna order. :)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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