Re: [PATCH v3 02/18] x86/msr/kvm: Remove vget_cycles()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 05:35:50PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> The only caller was kvm's read_tsc.  The only difference between
> vget_cycles and native_read_tsc was that vget_cycles returned zero
> instead of crashing on TSC-less systems.  KVM's already checks
> vclock_mode before calling that function, so the extra check is
> unnecessary.
> 
> (Off-topic, but the whole KVM clock host implementation is gross.
>  IMO it should be rewritten.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h | 13 -------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c         |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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