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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:03:49 +0200 From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andi@...stfloor.org, mingo@...e.hu, ming.m.lin@...el.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 11:35 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 12:48 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: >> > > >> The warning could also be done on boot. But the check has to be done >> > > >> when the event is created. >> > > > >> > > > Is this because of the ucode loader not having done its thing yet etc..? >> > >> > Ah, its because you can update ucode at runtime of course. >> > >> > A quick look at the ucode loader doesn't show it having a >> > notifier either, so then yeah we need to check on every event >> > creation :/ >> > >> > Or we could put a hook in the ucode loader. >> >> I'd really suggest the latter - I doubt this will be our only >> ucode dependent quirk, going forward ... > > Yeah, am in the middle of writing that.. I am fine with that. As I found out yesterday, the reality is that the ucode version for SNB vs. SNB-EP differ, so with this mechanism we could customize the callback per CPU model number more easily. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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