linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Add counter freezing quirk for Goldmont

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Date:   Wed, 3 Oct 2018 17:49:37 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
        acme@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eranian@...gle.com,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Add counter freezing quirk for Goldmont

On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 05:41:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 08:10:31AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, kan.liang@...ux.intel.com wrote:
> > 
> > There is another variant of model/stepping micro code verification code in
> > intel_snb_pebs_broken(). Can we please make this table based and use a
> > common function? That's certainly not the last quirk we're going to have.
> > 
> > We already have a table based variant of ucode checking in
> > bad_spectre_microcode(). It's trivial enough to generalize that.
> 
> apic_check_deadline_errata() is another one. That one already uses the
> x86_cpu_id thing, but still plays silly games for steppings. So if we're
> going to build a new microcode table matcher...

intel_snb_pebs_broken() looks like a potential candidate too...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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