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Date:	Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:07:15 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>,
	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>, jeremy@...p.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86, CPU: Fix show_msr MSR accessing function

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 04:52:36PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
> 
> There's no real reason why, when showing the MSRs on a CPU at boottime,
> we should be using the AMD-specific variant. Simply use the generic safe
> one which handles #GPs just fine.

Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> 
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> index 82f29e70d058..232fba2d54c9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static void __cpuinit __print_cpu_msr(void)
>  		index_max = msr_range_array[i].max;
>  
>  		for (index = index_min; index < index_max; index++) {
> -			if (rdmsrl_amd_safe(index, &val))
> +			if (rdmsrl_safe(index, &val))
>  				continue;
>  			printk(KERN_INFO " MSR%08x: %016llx\n", index, val);
>  		}
> -- 
> 1.7.9.3.362.g71319
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