Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 May 2013 20:10:18 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: Drop WARN on AMD lack of perfctrs |
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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 01:55:57PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > Maybe. But do you really need to dump a stack trace here? What is a > user supposed to do with that information? Can they fix the kernel? > Can the fix the CPU? As far as I can tell, they can't do either.
Send their CPU back to AMD is I suppose the best they can do ;-)
> Is using pr_err with the same message really somehow worse than using > WARN?
I would make it a FW_BUG as well. But yeah, I suppose that is a better option than the WARN_ON. Unless Robert had a different reason...
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