From fea50c0f1d792603d576cd1270d18ad48718ee81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:37:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 14/43] x86/vPMU: document as unsupported This is XSA-163. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> master commit: c03480cf5c4e96fb4afb2237ad0a3cac7162564a master date: 2015-11-24 18:32:20 +0100 --- docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown index 84bca2a..b634361 100644 --- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown +++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown @@ -1370,8 +1370,8 @@ feature is switched on on Intel processors supporting this feature. Note that if **watchdog** option is also specified vpmu will be turned off. *Warning:* -As the BTS virtualisation is not 100% safe and because of the nehalem quirk -don't use the vpmu flag on production systems with Intel cpus! +As the virtualisation is not 100% safe, don't use the vpmu flag on +production systems (see http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-163.html)! ### watchdog > `= force | <boolean>` -- 2.7.2