Changeset 68106 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3

Timestamp:

Jul 25, 2017 11:25:50 AM (7 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Updated comment.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/TM.cpp (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/TM.cpp

@@ -1179 +1179 @@
 
     /*
-     * Reset TSC to avoid a windows 8 bug (see @bugref{8926}).
+     * Reset TSC to avoid a Windows 8+ bug (see @bugref{8926}). If Windows
+     * sees TSC value beyond 0x40000000000 at startup, it will reset the
+     * TSC on boot-up CPU only, causing confusion and mayhem with SMP.
      */
     VM_ASSERT_EMT0(pVM);