From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf: ignore LBR and offcore_rsp. Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:04:02 -0700 Message-ID: <87lhsu8arx.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> References: <37D7C6CF3E00A74B8858931C1DB2F0770148F513@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20140618155916.GZ6758@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "Liang\, Kan" , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm\@vger.kernel.org" , "Kleen\, Andi" To: Peter Zijlstra Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140618155916.GZ6758@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (Peter Zijlstra's message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:59:16 +0200") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Peter Zijlstra writes: > > This order indicates Andi is the author; but there's no corresponding > From. I wrote an early version of the patch, but Kan took it over and extended it. So both are authors. BTW Kan you may want to use git send-email to get standard format. > >> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang > > And here I thought that Andi was of the opinion that if you set CPUID to > indicate a particular CPU you had better also handle all its MSRs. Yes, philosophically that would be the right way, but we needed a short term fix to stop things from crashing, and that was the simplest. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only