linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] perf: bogus correlation of kernel symbols

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Message-ID: <4DD9AC5A.4010606@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 22 May 2011 17:37:46 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
CC:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davej@...hat.com,
	kees.cook@...onical.com, davem@...emloft.net, eranian@...gle.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, adobriyan@...il.com,
	penberg@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] perf: bogus correlation of kernel symbols

On 05/22/2011 05:25 PM, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> 
>> Sometime soon you'll have "rdrand" available (check a different cpuid
>> bit).
> 
> This of course is highly preferable, but I'd rather implement a solution
> that's widely supported in hardware today.  Perhaps further down the
> road it could be switched.
> 

Use the better one that is actually available.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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