Calculating the TSC value of a RHEL host using crash utility

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Issue

The customer needs to update their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x hosts due to BZ#818787, and would like to know how much time they have to complete the upgrade before being affected by it. How can they measure the current hardware TSC counter value?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.x
  • The crash and kernel-debuginfo packages installed

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