linux-kernel - Re: perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Haswell-EP uncore support

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1411272320580.3961@nanos>
Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:30:12 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	zheng.z.yan@...el.com, peterz@...radead.org, eranian@...gle.com
Subject: Re: perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Haswell-EP uncore support

On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >  > > I'm wondering if these should be just wrmsr's instead of wrmsrl's.
> >  > 
> >  > Can we just shut up coverity please?
> > 
> > I can manually dismiss them, I don't think the checker has the
> > information to determine this for itself.
> 
> I suspect my out of line MSR patchkit would fix the warning
> as a side effect, because there would be a function call
> inbetween and the function always gets full u64.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/10/376
> 
> So far it hasn't been reviewed. I'll keep reposting.

And if you do so, can you please add a proper 0/n cover letter which
explains the scope of the series. I'm tired of wading through N
patches to figure out whether this is something I should care of or
not.

Thanks,

	tglx
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