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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf,x86,p6: Add userspace RDPMC quirk for P6
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 02:37:29PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
> > Has someone actually hit this bug? People used PAPI/perfctr on these
> > machines for years, and it uses rdpmc by default so I would think it would
> > show up if it were an issue. I should check the perfctr code to see if it
> > had some sort of check.
>
> I can verify the perfctr code does have a case for PPRO errata 26, but it
> only disables things on pentium pros with stepping less than 9.

The doc said 0xB1, right? Should we keep it at that? Its not like
there's a lot of PPro machines left out there, so better safe than
sorry.

> It also disables rdpmc on original Pentiums due to errata 74 but I don't
> think we have to worry about that one.

We don't have a Family 5 driver, so no.


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