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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v0 04/71] itrace: Infrastructure for instruction flow tracing units


    Found more:

    "Note that no “freezing” takes place with the ToPA PMI. Thus, packet
    generation is not frozen, and the interrupt handler will be traced
    (though filtering can prevent this). Further, the setting of
    IA32_DEBUGCTL.Freeze_Perfmon_on_PMI is ignored and performance counters
    are not frozen by a ToPA PMI."


    Can someone confirm with the hardware people what happens when an actual
    PMU counter overflows and tries to raise the PMI while we're in one that
    ignores the 'Freeze_perfmon_on_PMI' bit?

    Since you cannot assert an interrupt that already asserted, but that
    handler can see the overflow status bit set and will likely process it;
    assuming the PMU is actually frozen.

    Also, this just smells ripe for errata and ugly bugs.

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