linux-kernel - Re: [patch] events/amd/power add support for fam16h model30h

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1606171154340.20990@macbook-air>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:56:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
cc:	Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] events/amd/power add support for fam16h model30h

On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 06:07:47PM +0800, Huang Rui wrote:
> > Agree with you. If the some chips are not stable, we can add a check
> > to ignore them with family and model id.
> 
> So if family 0x16 is not "stable" as you say, we probably should keep
> the cpu_match array too.

Has anyone actually verified that the fam15h excavator machines are 
producing "stable" results?

I know on my fam15h piledriver machines the results returned by the 
drivers/hwmon/fam15h_power.c driver look questionable at best, which is 
what started my trying to figure this whole thing out in the first place.

Vince