[Xen-changelog] [xen stable-4.5] x86/vPMU: document as unsupported

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commit fea50c0f1d792603d576cd1270d18ad48718ee81
Author:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue Dec 15 15:37:24 2015 +0100
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue Dec 15 15:37:24 2015 +0100

    x86/vPMU: document as unsupported
    
    This is XSA-163.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
    master commit: c03480cf5c4e96fb4afb2237ad0a3cac7162564a
    master date: 2015-11-24 18:32:20 +0100
---
 docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown 
b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
index 84bca2a..b634361 100644
--- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
+++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
@@ -1370,8 +1370,8 @@ feature is switched on on Intel processors supporting 
this feature.
 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>`
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