From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: [PATCH seccomp: make tsc disabling optional Patch-mainline: unknown References: 191123 Make the TSC disable purely paranoid feature optional, so by default seccomp returns absolutely zerocost. Ported from 2.6.19 to 2.6.24-rc7 by Jeff Mahoney. Addition of x86-64 by Jan Beulich. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney Automatically created from "patches.fixes/seccomp-disable-tsc-option" by xen-port-patches.py --- sle11sp1-2010-02-09.orig/arch/x86/kernel/process-xen.c 2010-02-09 17:12:56.000000000 +0100 +++ sle11sp1-2010-02-09/arch/x86/kernel/process-xen.c 2010-02-09 17:13:11.000000000 +0100 @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ static void hard_disable_TSC(void) void disable_TSC(void) { +#ifdef CONFIG_SECCOMP_DISABLE_TSC preempt_disable(); if (!test_and_set_thread_flag(TIF_NOTSC)) /* @@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ void disable_TSC(void) */ hard_disable_TSC(); preempt_enable(); +#endif } static void hard_enable_TSC(void)