From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"ak@linux.intel.com" <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>,
Maria Dimakopoulou <maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:31:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131129203103.GJ4266@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPqkBTvhgXm_UNWDEgjP4aVf=G2MxfgBpnJBsiAZpcg7x-r=w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 09:09:46PM +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > So in theory it would be harmless to export the values even if not
> > supported. What is the worst failure mode? That somehow a recent CPU
> > doesn't support the MSR and we get a GPF when trying to access it?
> >
> Yes. I think that's what you get with DRAM on client for instance.
We have rdmsr_safe for non-existent MSRs, in case touching such is the
issue.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-29 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-12 16:58 [PATCH v7 0/4] perf/x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support Stephane Eranian
2013-11-12 16:58 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] perf: add active_entry list head to struct perf_event Stephane Eranian
2013-11-27 14:07 ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Add " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2013-11-12 16:58 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] perf stat: add event unit and scale support Stephane Eranian
2013-11-27 14:08 ` [tip:perf/core] tools/perf/stat: Add " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2013-11-12 16:58 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support Stephane Eranian
2013-11-27 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-27 14:08 ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Add " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2013-11-27 18:35 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] perf,x86: add " Vince Weaver
2013-11-27 18:38 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-11-27 22:03 ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-28 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-28 12:35 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-11-29 19:16 ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-29 20:09 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-11-29 20:31 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-11-29 23:25 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-11-30 16:39 ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-12 16:58 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] perf,x86: add RAPL hrtimer support Stephane Eranian
2013-11-27 14:10 ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Add " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2013-11-27 14:33 ` tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2013-11-12 18:10 ` [PATCH v7 0/4] perf/x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support Andi Kleen
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