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    x86: VMware: Fix vmware_get_tsc code · 6bdbfe99
    Alok Kataria authored
    Impact: Fix possible failure to calibrate the TSC on Vmware near 4 GHz
    
    The current version of the code to get the tsc frequency from
    the VMware hypervisor, will be broken on processor with frequency
    (4G-1) HZ, because on such processors eax will have UINT_MAX
    and that would be legitimate.
    We instead check that EBX did change to decide if we were able to
    read the frequency from the hypervisor.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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