Re: [PATCH] Prevent timer value 0 for MWAITX

2017-04-27 Thread Natarajan, Janakarajan
On 4/25/2017 4:44 PM, Janakarajan Natarajan wrote: This patch prevents the value 0 from being used for the MWAITX timer. Newer hardware has uncovered a bug in the software implementation of using MWAITX for the delay function. A value of 0 for the timer is meant to indicate that a timeout will n

[PATCH] Prevent timer value 0 for MWAITX

2017-04-25 Thread Janakarajan Natarajan
This patch prevents the value 0 from being used for the MWAITX timer. Newer hardware has uncovered a bug in the software implementation of using MWAITX for the delay function. A value of 0 for the timer is meant to indicate that a timeout will not be used to exit MWAITX. On newer hardware this can