From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>,
David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>,
Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
Sai Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>,
Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add Haswell feature discovery
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 18:28:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161009162822.dpi3foa2eqcnw635@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161009170936.GC7672@linux.intel.com>
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 10:09:37AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> The MSR is not guaranteed on every stepping of the family and model machine
> because some parts may have the MSR fused off. And some bits in the MSR
> may not be implemented on some parts. And in KVM or guest, the MSR may not
> implemented. Those are reasons why we use wrmsr_safe/rdmsr_safe in Haswell
> probe.
Please add that info in a comment somewhere there as we'll all forget
about it otherwise.
Thanks.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-09 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-08 2:45 [PATCH v3 00/18] Intel Cache Allocation Technology Fenghua Yu
2016-10-07 23:54 ` [RFC PATCH 19/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add support for L2 cache allocation Luck, Tony
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 01/18] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for cache id Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 17:11 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-10 16:45 ` Luck, Tony
2016-10-11 16:48 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 02/18] cacheinfo: Introduce " Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 17:10 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 03/18] x86, intel_cacheinfo: Enable cache id in x86 Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 04/18] x86/intel_rdt: Feature discovery Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 17:11 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-08 20:54 ` Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 19:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-10-11 16:57 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-11 17:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-10-10 16:01 ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-10 16:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 05/18] Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel resource allocation user interface Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 17:12 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-08 20:33 ` Fenghua Yu
2016-10-10 17:19 ` Luck, Tony
2016-10-11 17:07 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-11 18:04 ` Luck, Tony
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 06/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add CONFIG, Makefile, and basic initialization Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 20:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 07/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add Haswell feature discovery Fenghua Yu
2016-10-09 11:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-10-09 17:09 ` Fenghua Yu
2016-10-09 16:28 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-10-10 18:55 ` Luck, Tony
2016-10-11 11:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-10-11 14:51 ` Luck, Tony
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 08/18] x86/intel_rdt: Pick up L3 RDT parameters from CPUID Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 09/18] x86/cqm: Move PQR_ASSOC management code into generic code used by both CQM and CAT Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 10/18] x86/intel_rdt: Build structures for each resource based on cache topology Fenghua Yu
2016-10-09 21:57 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 11/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add basic resctrl filesystem support Fenghua Yu
2016-10-09 22:31 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-10 23:44 ` Luck, Tony
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 12/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add "info" files to resctrl file system Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 13/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add mkdir " Fenghua Yu
2016-10-10 17:51 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-08 2:45 ` [PATCH v3 14/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus file Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 2:46 ` [PATCH v3 15/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add tasks files Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 2:46 ` [PATCH v3 16/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add schemata file Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 2:46 ` [PATCH v3 17/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add scheduler hook Fenghua Yu
2016-10-08 2:46 ` [PATCH v3 18/18] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for Intel RDT resource allocation Fenghua Yu
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