> I wonder what's worse - comparing SKU strings - we know that from the MCE
> recovery experience - or poking at maybe nonexistent MSRs? :-)
>
> I guess the latter is cleaner so let's try it.
Vikas got beat up for comparing SKU strings, so the probe method
was offered as an alternative. It's defi
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:55:45AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> How about this (this diff on top of current series, but obviously we'll
> fold it into part 07.
>
>
> commit cdb05159fb91ed1f85c950c0f2c6de25f143961d
> Author: Tony Luck
> Date: Mon Oct 10 11:48:42 2016 -0700
>
> Update the HSW
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 06:28:23PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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 i
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
> implemen
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 01:41:16PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 07:45:52PM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> > From: Fenghua Yu
> >
> > Some Haswell generation CPUs support RDT, but they don't enumerate this
> > using CPUID. Use rdmsr_safe() and wrmsr_safe() to probe the MSRs
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 07:45:52PM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> From: Fenghua Yu
>
> Some Haswell generation CPUs support RDT, but they don't enumerate this
> using CPUID. Use rdmsr_safe() and wrmsr_safe() to probe the MSRs on
> cpu model 63 (INTEL_FAM6_HASWELL_X)
>
> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu
>
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