Re: [RFT] Fix for unhandled msr c0000081 problems under Intel cpus

Ingo Molnar
2006-12-28T14:12:42Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> the caller is in the gdb dump above:
>
> > > 0xc011b8ae is in setup_apic_nmi_watchdog (include/asm/msr.h:36).
>
> i'll change it to wrmsr_safe().

actually, those MSRs are really architecture-defined for P6 family CPUs.
So KVM/qemu should at least fake something there, or ignore it. These
MSRs might be ticked by various existing kernels and distributions.
Performance counters are ignored at the moment?

Ingo