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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 02:42:41PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:37 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > This is a minimal fix which we'd like to see in stable too thus the
> > more-or-less arbitrary decision to allow system-wide reloading only on
> > the BSP:
> >
> > $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/reload
> > ...
> >
> > and disable the interface on the other cores:
> >
> > $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu23/microcode/reload
> > -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>
> One could allow the reload from all cpus and simply do all cpus, but I
> guess the rationale for not doing that and restricting it to cpu0 is to
> avoid the O(n^2) thing in case userspace issues a reload on all cpus?

That's a good point.

Actually, the BSP thing was more-or-less an arbitrary deal. What we want as an
endresult is to do:

$ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload

(notice this is in the toplevel "cpu" directory in sysfs)

and do the system-wide reload there.

Obviously, this needs a couple of more patches and we wanted to have a
simplest stable fix first.

> If so it would be good to mention in the Changelog so people see its not
> a 'random' choice.

Yes, will do, thanks!

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