linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/cpu] x86/cpu: Get rid of the show

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:25:02 -0700
From:   Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     "linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org" 
        <linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/cpu] x86/cpu: Get rid of the show_msr= boot option

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:34 AM, tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
<tipbot@...or.com> wrote:
> Commit-ID:  59c6f278bdeea4147e8be92a3ed50a9907e60088
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/59c6f278bdeea4147e8be92a3ed50a9907e60088
> Author:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:38:44 +0200
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> CommitDate: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:48:50 +0200
>
> x86/cpu: Get rid of the show_msr= boot option
>
> It is useless as it dumps the MSRs too early BUT(!) we do set MSRs later too.

So that is reason that was added to print the MSR early before kernel
try to change it.

> Also, it dumps only BSP MSRs as it gets called only for CPU 0.

I sent the fix last year.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6739171/

Yinghai