Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf: ignore LBR and offcore_rsp.

Andi Kleen
2014-06-18T16:05:21Z

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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 <kan.liang@intel.com>
>
> 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.