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> you could use the vDSO for high-resolution timing but, from an attack perspective, it’s a red herring. Any serious attacker would use RDTSC,

Good point. I was going to say that in general the vDSO is just rdtsc + an offset applied. However they insert a barrier before it usually. That maybe or many not be helpful so I would probably still use rdtsc by itself.




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