On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 02:29:36PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote: > from the document you linked it looks like it was fixed by the Pentium > Pro stepping sB1 (6.1.9).
OK, I'll add a boot_cpu_data.x86_mask >= 0xB1 test. > Has someone actually hit this bug? People used PAPI/perfctr on these > machines for years, and it uses rdpmc by default so I would think it would > show up if it were an issue. I should check the perfctr code to see if it > had some sort of check. Yeah, the reporter had a boot fail due to this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/