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From: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>,
	kdb@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@laptop.org
Subject: Re: kdb: add rdmsr and wrmsr commands for i386
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 02:36:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464BF7E5.4080105@codewiz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6778.1179382953@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

Keith Owens wrote:

> Before using MSR, you must first check that the cpu supports the
> instruction, rd/wrmsr cause an oops on 486 or earlier.  Also using an
> invalid msr number causes an oops, so use rd/wrmsr_safe().

I didn't bother implementing those checks because kdb recovers
nicely from GPF anyway.  It's the valid MSR writes that could
cause unrecoveable problems! :)

-- 
   // Bernardo Innocenti
 \X/  http://www.codewiz.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-17  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <46494B99.2030502@codewiz.org>
     [not found] ` <20070515145133.GE27984@cosmic.amd.com>
2007-05-16  3:03   ` kdb: add rdmsr and wrmsr commands for i386 Bernardo Innocenti
2007-05-17  6:22     ` Keith Owens
2007-05-17  6:36       ` Bernardo Innocenti [this message]
2007-05-17  6:39         ` Keith Owens

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