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Keith Owens wrote: > Before using MSR, you must first check that the cpu supports the > instruction, rd/wrmsr cause an oops on 486 or earlier. Also using an > invalid msr number causes an oops, so use rd/wrmsr_safe(). I didn't bother implementing those checks because kdb recovers nicely from GPF anyway. It's the valid MSR writes that could cause unrecoveable problems! :) -- // Bernardo Innocenti \X/ http://www.codewiz.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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