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# Commit c03480cf5c4e96fb4afb2237ad0a3cac7162564a
# Date 2015-11-24 18:32:20 +0100
# Author Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
# Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
x86/vPMU: document as unsupported
This is XSA-163.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Index: xen-4.6.0-testing/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
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--- xen-4.6.0-testing.orig/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
+++ xen-4.6.0-testing/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
@@ -1463,8 +1463,8 @@ feature is switched on on Intel processo
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>`