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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	eranian@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] perf, x86: Save/resotre LBR stack during context switch
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:57:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130710175734.GZ6123@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130704140057.GN18898@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 04:00:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 03:44:57PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Evidently it's not read-only on Haswell at least.
> 
> It would be ever so good if you could at least test run such patches against
> semi-current chips, not only the very latest.

So we tested some systems (old and new Atom, Westmere, Nehalem, *Bridge)
and they all have writable TOS. Also I double checked the SDM
and it actually documents these MSRs as R/W in Chapter 35

So relying on this is ok.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-10 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-01  7:23 [PATCH v2 0/7] perf, x86: Haswell LBR call stack support Yan, Zheng
2013-07-01  7:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] perf, x86: Reduce lbr_sel_map size Yan, Zheng
2013-07-01  7:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] perf, x86: Basic Haswell LBR call stack support Yan, Zheng
2013-07-01  7:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] perf, x86: Introduce x86 special perf event context Yan, Zheng
2013-07-04 12:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-05  3:19     ` Yan, Zheng
2013-07-05 12:45       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-08  8:51         ` Yan, Zheng
2013-07-01  7:23 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] perf, x86: Save/resotre LBR stack during context switch Yan, Zheng
2013-07-04  9:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 11:39     ` Yan, Zheng
2013-07-04 13:44     ` Andi Kleen
2013-07-04 14:00       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-10 17:57         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2013-07-04 12:44   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 12:45   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-05  5:36     ` Yan, Zheng
2013-07-05  8:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-05  8:51         ` Yan, Zheng
2013-07-05 12:31           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-08  6:18             ` Yan, Zheng
2013-07-01  7:23 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] perf, core: Pass perf_sample_data to perf_callchain() Yan, Zheng
2013-07-01  7:23 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] perf, x86: Use LBR call stack to get user callchain Yan, Zheng
2013-07-01  7:23 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] perf, x86: Discard zero length call entries in LBR call stack Yan, Zheng
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2012-10-24  5:59 [PATCH V2 0/7] perf, x86: Haswell LBR call stack support Yan, Zheng
2012-10-24  5:59 ` [PATCH V2 4/7] perf, x86: Save/resotre LBR stack during context switch Yan, Zheng

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